The word is spreading 🙂
Chris the story reading ape has a post today talking about, amongst other things, ‘free days’ for books:
Giveaway or Freebie days are great, lots of books downloaded or given away, then, when the book price returns, nothing moves and reviews from readers are scarce, if at all, even from the Giveaway in exchange for honest reviews…
I have done a few free days of my books on Amazon, and have to agree that the chance of getting any reviews at all out of it is very low indeed.
I would say that free days are effective in two ways.
- On Amazon at least, recommendations are determined by analysing customer views and purchases (‘Customers who bought this item also bought…’). Free days are great for establishing these cross-references for new releases.
- It’s getting very common for authors who write series of books to make the first in the series permanently…
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