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There is an innate flaw in the way Smashwords counts these "purchases," however. I have read several books with the Name Your Price option. First I download it, which counts as a purchase, then after reading it I come back to review and pay what I think the book was worth. In order to pay, I have to make a second "purchase," which inflates the number of purchases relative to paying readers.
Of course, not everyone does it this way (paying after the fact), but I expect I am not the only one who does. Speaking for myself, I can say that I paid between $4 and $7.50 for the books I read, though one was bad enough that I dropped it less than a quarter of the way through and did not pay anything.
The Bandit
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