I received a record number of blog subscribers this weekend after posting Matt’s read-first-pay-later interview.
Appealing ain’t it? How authors are giving away their intellectual property, and still managing to make a buck - from the same title they’re giving away?
I mean it’s one thing to give away a freebie, and then sell those freebie readers a different title.
But it’s a whole ‘nother ball of wax to give something away, and still have people buy it.
Especially if they’re paying for the same digial copy and not a print version.
As someone who’s always looking to make their business run smoother, I think this particular concept is smoking hot. It absolutely epitomizes the autopilot theory.
Anyway today here’s another bit of confirmation that this strategy is working in other markets.
Many2Many - a group weblog on social publishing - recently highlighted the efforts of science fiction authors who give away their books for free online.
According to author Cory Doctorow, “I’ve discovered what many authors have also discovered: releasing electronic texts of books drives sales of the print editions.”
Authors DO give it away and grow rich,
Alexis Dawes
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