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Jeff, the answer is yes and no. I don't buy paperbacks ever, so in that sense it doesn't matter. But I do buy either an ebook or a hardcover and here it does matter. If you are an author with whom I am unfamiliar, the free ebook introduces me to you and if I like it, I will find other books you have written and buy them in either ebook or hardcover. Absent the free ebook, I may not discover you at all. Of course, the flipside is that I learn from the free ebook that I do not enjoy your writing style and so do not purchase any other books. But absent the free ebook, you may well not have had any shot to sell me your writing.
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