6 responses to “My book is officially on sale tomorrow – but part of me wishes it was free…”
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Antony, congratulations on the launch of the book – I hope the sales go well.
Are you allowed to publish excerpts? This would allow more people to see the content and comment on it.
Andrew Grill
http://www.londoncalling.mobi
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Congrats Anotony, great to see your book now out.
Personally, I've never read an ebook, free or otherwise. I can't read anything lengthy on a monitor and if I decide to print it I might as well just buy the real thing. So I'm all for good old fashioned paper books and if enough of your readers are like me, it shouldn't harm its popularity.
Following on from that, I wonder what kind of person you would recommend this book to. What is your target market?
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Since buying a smart phone, I find I'm reading more pdf's downloaded for free. For the really good books I go to the “trouble” of buying the “dead-tree” version.
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@Julian I know what you mean… I think that the e-books I've published have mainly been printed out for reading from what i have seen and heard. I'd add that I love the physical artefact of my book, and I still buy other books – many of them in fact. I will be trying out an iPad as an e-reader though and will be delighted if it works out as I like to carry books with me to read when travelling and they can end up taking up a lot of space.
In terms of who the book is for – really it is for everyone other than people who are deeply immersed in social media and extremely literate. The first reviewer of Me and My Web Shadow on Amazon put it very well:
“I feel like I could share this book with anyone and they would find it useful.
* My boss, for example, who wants to find out whether LinkedIn and Twitter apply to our business and how.
* My sister, who wants to encourage her daughter to use Facebook positively as well as protect her from on-line 'baddies'.
* My friends and colleagues already using on-line networking, who want to make themselves, their music or their message heard.” -
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