On 7/4/2011 12:47 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Free books does not mean free eBooks. A free book takes money to create every copy, so it can be assumed that if it's free, they are making their money some other way (i.e. they are selling you something indirectly). But a free eBook does not require money per copy to produce, so its quality cannot be judged based on the price (either way, check out alphascript publishing).
Cannot be? Sure. But it is. There were some recent articles about how Amazon is being flooded with junk ebooks, and that a lot of people seem to be filtering them based on price.
How about this, if you charge any amount of money more than 0, I guarantee you will have less than 10% of the downloads than if you gave it away for free. Plus you will alienate people who think they bought an actual D book (or worse, think they are getting a deal on Andrei's book) and feel like chumps. That should be great for D's image :P
It's a fair point.
