|  03-14-2009, 07:58 AM | #1 | 
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				Cotton Wool World by Anna Westwood free!
			 
			
			http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/4311 If you like dark observational social meanderings and aren't up yourself then you will love this book - it's just gone up now! | 
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|  03-14-2009, 08:01 AM | #2 | 
| eBook Enthusiast            Posts: 85,560 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6 | 
			
			Do you have some commercial connection with this book?
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|  03-14-2009, 08:06 AM | #3 | 
| Techno-Junkie   Posts: 74 Karma: 176 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Southeastern Wisconsin Device: Sony Reader PRS-500 (x's 2), PRS-505, PRS-600, iPhone, iPad | 
			
			Commercial connection to a FREE e-book?
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|  03-14-2009, 08:26 AM | #4 | 
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			"Free" does not mean "in the public domain". I would like to know someone's reason for joining MR specifically to tell us about a newly-released book.
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|  03-14-2009, 08:30 AM | #5 | 
| Semper Carpe Bufo            Posts: 537 Karma: 21676 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Napa Valley, California Device: Kindle2 & Kindle3 | 
			
			I suspect Jill and Anna are one in the same and this is an attempt to get herself published. Nothing wrong with that IMO so long as it's free. My $0.02   | 
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|  03-14-2009, 08:32 AM | #6 | 
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			As you say, nothing wrong with that, but it would be more honest to say "I am the author of this book", don't you think?
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|  03-14-2009, 08:51 AM | #7 | |
| Semper Carpe Bufo            Posts: 537 Karma: 21676 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Napa Valley, California Device: Kindle2 & Kindle3 | Quote: 
  Hopefully someone will post a kind review for us.   | |
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|  03-14-2009, 08:52 AM | #8 | 
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			I'm sure you'd look lovely in a thong, Norm!    | 
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|  03-14-2009, 08:52 AM | #9 | 
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			Yes, but commercial connection implies monetary gain and since it is free then there is none. I believe you mean "publicity." And she may not be the author simply an interested friend or relative, in which case there is no "dishonesty" intended as you imply.
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|  03-14-2009, 09:10 AM | #11 | 
| Grand Sorcerer            Posts: 45,611 Karma: 60184181 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Peru Device: KINDLE: Oasis 3, Scribe (1st), Matcha; KOBO: Libra 2, Libra Colour | 
			
			Whoever the author is, be prepared to get blasted or praised if someone decides it's worth downloading.  You don't write a book, publicize it, and live in a bubble-world. Don | 
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|  03-14-2009, 09:39 AM | #12 | 
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|  03-14-2009, 09:59 AM | #13 | |
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  *Yours now for the introductory price of $19.99** **Guaranteed to ward off critics, naysayers, nitpickers and personal frailties*** ***Not a guarantee. | |
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|  03-14-2009, 01:16 PM | #14 | 
| Grand Sorcerer            Posts: 19,832 Karma: 11844413 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tampa, FL USA Device: Kindle Touch | 
			
			Marketing yourself by giving away a free book is a commercial task. If this person is the author, be forthright about it. We have several authors here whom have been promoted their work and been open about it. Two names come to mind, Jerry Carver and Steven Jordan.  BOb | 
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|  03-14-2009, 01:57 PM | #15 | |
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