Thread: Reasons you have not paid for a 'donationware' book?
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Old 02-17-2010, 04:30 PM   #14
delphidb96
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Originally Posted by ficbot View Post
Richard Herley's post about offering his books for free and getting many downloads but not many payments had me wondering about people who download a free book and don't pay for it. Why not? Select more than one reason if you want to, but if you can leave a comment about which reason was the primary one, that would be so interesting.

1) I downloaded it but haven't read it yet
2) I did not read it because the book is 'not my thing'
3) I read at minimum a sample, but the book was not to my liking
4) I meant to send a donation but I forgot
5) I meant to send a donation but do not use Paypal (or whatever given option)
6) Why send money when the author is giving it away for free
7) Other
You forgot the option for: "I didn't bother to download it because his story blurbs didn't make the novels appeal to me."

Besides, I've never heard of him... at least, not until he posted that his experiment was over. So I'd have to say his advertising/marketing campaign failed to reach me.

Derek
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