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If your work is appealing, it should work. Have you ever asked for a book to a friend, read it, fell in love with it, and started buying everything by that author? It happened to me with the Wheel of Time series, and with Jules Verne's works. So, by giving away the books, you're doing what a friend would do: give you the chance to know the author, the ...


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Having read parts of your writing(s) I must say: your writings are bad. Not pleased to be rude, but your writings is worse than the worst vulgar propaganda. I have no problem with Christians, Jews, Muslims and most religious people. But your book deserves to be utterly reworked. Although declared that you were writing on religion, in fact, the book is ...


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Tread with caution. A lot of caution. Free stories to promote the author is a marketing strategy. As such, there are situations where it can be wonderful; situations it can be disastrous; situations it can be utterly harmless and entirely insignificant. I think these are the central questions you've got to ask yourself when considering writing freebies ...


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Plainly speaking: your book is one amongst millions. People won't find it by sheer serendipity. And they won't bother picking it up unless something persuades them they should. To sell a book, you've pretty much got two options: you either need to succeed on strength of your writing, by selling the book to a publisher who'll do the marketing for you; or ...


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Religious books tend to have an extremely small market. They very rarely hit the best-seller charts. But you're not going to hit the best seller charts by self-publishing with CreateSpace no matter what. Bestsellers take amazing plot/writing, a lot of marketing, and luck. People aren't going to magically find your book - you need to advertise it, get ...


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I can offer no evidence, but speaking as a reader, it would make me more likely to purchase a book if I had read and enjoyed the writer's freebies. Because I've already seen the writer's skill, style, and characters, and decided whether the writer was appealing to me After a coupla freebies I start to feel like I owe the person something, and should ...


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I think the important part about any kind of giveaway is to make it part of a marketing plan. I know the words "marketing plan" are rife with tedium and the apprehension associated with the buzz word but that's just because marketing has become something done by people with no connection to the products they're trying to get people to buy. For the artist or ...


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In this link from Jun 2013, they say that in the UK, the total of ebooks sold are 12%. However, Sci-Fi has about 20% of ebook sales. It provides some links in English, but I couldn't find more info for free. Only some research to buy (and I'm not going to pay for it).



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