Thread: "With Kindle, the Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell"
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Old 01-27-2010, 04:51 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by TC Beacham View Post
For me the free samples available at Smashwords and Kindle are plenty. But it seems that for some the internet is seen as a place to get free stuff.
I almost never download samples of books. All my books are things that sounded interesting, that I took a chance on, or freebies. And since I have so many backlogged books, if a book is offered for free I will download it and stick it on my reader for the future. However, any portion of a book would be ignored. I have enough stuff already that I don't need any snippets or partial books.

So, to capture my interest in your book that otherwise wouldn't have caught my attention, it would have to be free. It's not that I'm averse to paying for ebooks, because I'm not, I've bought well over 500. But to get me to invest the time in reading something that I'm not sure is my thing, I want the entire book. Perhaps just my quirk, but it's why a free book gets me to download it, but samples mean nothing to me.

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