In an effort to entice readers to purchase new books by an author, writers, publishers and e-book sellers like Amazon are offering some of an author’s older books as a free download.
The hope is that if a reader likes one book by an author, he may be willing to purchase others. There is some evidence that this is working. Many readers have written that they would not even have known of an author if his work had not been released as a free download. As we learn in, The latest craze: Free e-books offerings, Some readers have even been known to purchase additional books by an author just to support them.
However, publishers and authors are worried about the same thing. Will users become so accustomed to downloading free books that they are no longer willing to purchase a book? After finishing a book by an author, will that reader continue on by making a purchase of another work by the same author, or just move on to another free title? One author laments that there are so many free books that a reader can fill his Kindle with them and not ever have to pay for reading material.
See, Travel light, read e-books, for Dibner Library links to free e-books available online.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Boy67 // Oct 10, 2009 at 4:26 pm
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2 John41 // Oct 13, 2009 at 4:12 am
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3 vikas // Oct 16, 2009 at 4:07 pm
I think this model works as publisher wants to share some of their free books and get publicity . Student and other reader reads those free books and can buy new books from publisher so its win - win situtation . The only problem is the illegal books from file sharing
4 Red43 // Oct 23, 2009 at 4:01 am
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