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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
It would probably work better with a series of books, where you give the first one away for free and then people can buy the others if they want. Rather than hobble the free copy, another way to do it would be to insert advertising/ "buy here" nags every few pages.
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Yeah, not sure this would've been a good business model for the likes of J. D. Salinger or John Kennedy Toole.
Jane Fancher you could also spam the 'darknet' with flawed copies of your work. So that anyone searching for a free download instead of just paying for it at your site would likely just find that flawed copy. Then again that just might provoke the sort of response apparently given to Harlan Ellison.
Speaking of which … I've never met the man or seen him in person and all the talk here makes me regret that. I do recall that when I was young, must have been about 1968 – 1969, I read a collection of SF stories that included his story Shattered Like a Glass Goblin. In it a female character asks a male character: “You want to fuck?” At 15 years old I was shocked that a SF author could include such dialogue in a book. No other SF author that I was aware of was doing such.