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Originally Posted by LeeGoldberg
That said, the sales of my books on Smashwords and Scribd are negligible or non-existent. So I may be gaining "good will" points with two dozen readers...
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By announcing here that your books are available on Smashwords, you gain those points from hundreds of ebook fans, many of whom make recommendations to their families & friends.
This can have the end result of driving up Kindlebook sales, because a lot of those family members aren't particularly ebook savvy--but they're looking at authors recommended by people who are. (Cory Doctorow probably doesn't sell a lot of physical books to the people who download his free ebooks, but he sells plenty to the people they talk to.) And not being tagged as "yet another author who only wants US customers who like Amazon" helps sales.