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If You Want Your Book To Sell, Give It Away For Free

From Neil Gaiman’s Journal’s Scary eyes: “I learned from Harper Collins that 68,000 unique visitors have read the [free] book pages of American Gods [online], 3,000,000 book pages viewed in aggregate, and that the weekly book sales of American Gods have apparently gone up by 300%, rather than tumbling into the abyss.”

Footprints

[Editor's Note: In celebration of his blog's 7th birthday, Neil Gaiman convinced his publishers to put one of his books online for free. The idea, I think, is that either people will start reading the book online, and decide they like it enough to buy it; or they'll read the whole thing online, and like [...]

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