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Originally Posted by jbcohen
Some authors I have noticed will offer the first one or two books in a series to get customers hooked then charge for the rest of the series. That's called a loss leader and David Weber does that with his Honor Harringtion series. I can see that and I like being able to see if I like an author's writing style before I commit my hard earned dollars.
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The Honorverse series runs 16 books so far; release one or two as free intros is fine. But what of a writer with maybe three standalone books? And the BAEN ebooks are DRM-free.
As Bujold is about to discover, once those things are out on the net they never go away.
Free is good, free is useful.
But not always, not for everybody.
(Example: Putting a Keith Laumer in the library makes sense: a great writer with a deep catalog that is often neglected. Putting Tom Goodwin? Not so much.)