Thread: "With Kindle, the Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell"
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Old 01-23-2010, 02:33 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by TC Beacham View Post
What do you think about offering free books?
My own experience, FWIW. I originally charged for all my ebooks, and got a trickle of downloads. I decided to make the first one free, and fairly rapidly found it getting thousands of downloads - and hundreds of sales of the later books.

Readers are presented with a plethora of unfamiliar names when they go searching. And people are used to having quite vast amounts of free content on the 'net. Even $1.99 can be a barrier when it comes to trying the unknown.
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