Thread: Should the availability of a sample affect the price of a book?
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Old 07-02-2010, 08:52 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by J. Strnad View Post
I used to think that giving my book away for free would result in more readers. I don't believe that anymore. People look at a free book and, unless it's a public domain classic, they think, "If it was any good, they'd be charging for it." They don't feel it's worth their time.
It isn't really that. It is all the other free books (and parts of books) that are competing for the same (often restricted) reading time. Paid for books do tend to jump the queue, but that is more due to how much they have been looked forward to by the reader rather than any monetary value they place on reading them.
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