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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
It can build a fanbase, that can lead to other opportunities. I know of several people who have got book deals as a result of giving away free ebooks, and one that also got a couple of film deals. I think it will be harder to break through that way now, because there are so many people doing it.
For writers who are already established, they could easily get people to pay a small fee and sell direct. That small fee would probably be more than they would get if they let a publisher sell it instead. And as someone else said, they could always sell it to a normal publisher at a later date.
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Agree 100%.
As I said above, it can lead to good things in the future.
It just kills any chance of sell
that book to
that person once they've read it. But they may buy future books by that author, so it can be a good strategy.
It's just different from music where artists can stream whole albums on their website and get people to buy them as music as replay value that books don't for most people. Hear an album once and love it, you want to keep listening to it over and over. Read a book and love it, most will never read it again, and if they do it will be a long time down the road.
But it can be a worthwhile tactic to give away a book to get publicity and improve a future career--as long as the person wasn't a one hit/book wonder of course.