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Originally Posted by maggie*
And I'm yet to see "special promotions" in ebooks from the publisher...
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What do you think the
Baen Free Library is?
And many publishers offer temporary free ebooks:
Harlequin Celebrates 60 years with
16 free ebooks
Free Books From Random House (Promotion is over; these are no longer available. But Random House regularly offers small selections of free, DRM'd ebooks--and they run the Suvudu free library.)
Tor.com gave away free ebooks, 1/week, a bit more than a year ago, as a promo for launching the new site. (Can't find direct links, and it doesn't matter 'cos they're not available anymore.)
While none of these cost money-per-book to distribute (unless you count the bandwidth of the downloads, which sane people don't), they do cost money to promote; they have to inform news outlets and find ways to get social media sites interested in passing along the info.