Re: Free Kindle version today: publishing guru Dan Poynter's book on writing and promoting your book

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

I'm listening, Doug. My ebooks offered so far have not been my paper top 
sellers such as the trough book -- I don't want to mess up those sales by 
giving away my best content. But little by little I am feeling more 
confident about digital copies and plan to do several more.

Like you, I am letting the Kindle KDP-only agreement expire. This will 
happen in June with mine.

The ebook version (or something) has given a lift to one of my books -- Rex 
Murfitt's "Creating and Planting Alpine Gardens" which is aimed at a small 
group of readers. I think maybe it's the easily available free preview, 10 
percent of the book (a GWA award winner for writing).

One interesting analytic factor would be how many people get the free 
preview. Amazon does not tell.

I would love to hear from other ebook publishers.

Cheers, Betty

www.mackeybooks.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Green" <gardeningemail@gmail.com>
For example, in my initial trials, making a book free resulted
>> in far fewer reviews than discounting it for my readers.  "Free" has no
>> value while a discount does create sales-obligation.  I'm running some
>> trials now - got another week to go - to see if there's any correlation
>> between free and total sales of all ebooks and number of downloads. >

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