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I buy about 8 books a month--this doesn't include free books. Right now I have 77 unread samples on my Kindle. There are also 96 books waiting on my Kindle that were free. The book I'm currently reading and the next 4 in line were all $8 - 10 and from authors I know I like.
Before collections, I didn't realize just how many books I actually had on my Kindle. I knew there were a lot of pages, but I thought they were mostly samples. The point is that just offering a sample or even a freebie--is not a guarantee that your book will be read. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't even download a sample, if the cost of the book is more than I'm willing to pay for a particular genre/author. I know that I'm influenced by price and I would be more likely to download/read something by an unknown if it were relatively cheap.
Another thing I noticed when I was organizing my books into collections was that a lot of the books that were free when I downloaded them, are no longer free. I have a feeling they were offered free long enough to get good ratings and/or get in the top 100 best selling free books. So my advice would be start out cheap--you can always raise the price later!
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