Are free ebooks a good idea or not? – The Shatzkin Files by Fiction Kindle Books

Kindle is certainly engendering a lot of confusion by billboarding the downloads of free ebooks as. ... Kindle bestsellers tend to be frontlist fiction and as best we could tell from early comparisons, the addition of Kindle data didn't have a big impact on the USAT list. (It might have more on lists that break out hc fiction separately.) 2. Also note that, while I would agree that most free ebook promotions appear to stimulate print sales, success has not been universal. ...