Here’s one I’d like you all to share. If you’ve been considering buying Stays Crunchy in Milk but have been on the fence so far now you can download the first 67 pages. That’s right a PDF with all of Part One. Download it, read it, share it with a friend. Then, if you enjoy it, buy the book. Tell your friends.
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Which brings to mind a debate. How do you feel about books released for free online alongside a print version for sale? I mean if there was a PDF of a book you thought sounded interesting would you download it? If you did download it and enjoyed it would you buy a copy? Tell your friends?
It isn’t a big leap of logic to see why I’m poking about this. So please, let’s talk about it. This could change the way I do things. I’m insanely curious what you all think about this topic. Chime in!
Eisner and Harvey award winning editor, writer and tired person. Novelist, comic writer, cat owner, NY'er.
I will always enjoy the feeling of having a book in my hand and turning the pages (which is part of the reason I’m not on the Kindle bandwagon yet) so I would most likely still purchase, but I think it’s great to offer a “Pay what you can” download of the book. Maybe continue to have the first section free and then if they want the whole thing they can set a price. Folks often pay more than you think they will, and for the ones who can’t/don’t, you haven’t lost the cost of a printed book by giving it to them for free.
Hmmm Yeah I dunno there are all sorts of logistics to a pay what you want model.