Thread: Should the availability of a sample affect the price of a book?
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Old 07-02-2010, 12:32 PM   #51
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Originally Posted by neilmarr View Post
Promotion takes imagination, skill, determination, energy, time, nerve and sometimes money, Harry. Believe me, offering an extract or the first part of a book as a free taster is the easiest promo move of all. It's a simple cut-n-paste job and the time it takes to learn where to most effectively place it. It's so simple that push-button operations like Smashwords just ask what percentage of the work you will offer for free download and then hit the corresponding key for automatic posting of the sample. As easy as falling off a high bar stool. Neil
That was how I assumed it would work. Is it intelligent enough to not break off in the middle or a sentence, or do you need to check for things like that manually?
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