With Kindle, the Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell

With Kindle, the Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell, article.
And in some cases, the free e-books work. Pamela Deron, a 29-year-old administrative assistant in Florida, said she downloaded a free edition of “Already Dead,” the first in the Joe Pitt series, onto her Kindle this month.
“There are so many authors out there that fall into obscurity,” Ms. Deron wrote in an e-mail message. “Simply no one knows of them, and some readers are hesitant buying an author they never heard of. Free books allow you to experience the writer as a whole, not just a small tidbit.”
She added: “Fifty dollars later, I have the entire Joe Pitt series.”

Steve W alerted me to the article, and says:
This model does work, or has with my wife. She has found three new authors by downloading a free book and then buying the remaining books in the series. Most likely she would have stayed with the free book from the library or Gutenburg had they charged for all of them. The last sentence in the article describes the wife to a T.

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