Thread: James McGrath Morris: Will eBooks Make Midlist Authors Extinct?
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Old 06-11-2010, 03:47 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by CathrynLouis View Post
All the comments about midlist authors are reassuring - I hope to be one some day.

I do have a question though - if most people are choosing books by who they've already read, how do new authors get discovered?
Free books (whether authorised or not), or failing that a decent sized (25%) free sample from the beginning so that if they like it they can continue reading from where they left off.
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