Comments on: Cory Doctorow’s e-free/p-paid biz model working in Wiley tests http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/cory-doctorows-e-freep-paid-biz-model-working-in-wiley-tests/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/cory-doctorows-e-freep-paid-biz-model-working-in-wiley-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-140502 David Rothman Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:14:09 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5911#comment-140502 Great insights, Shel! I like the idea of giving away the whole book (if you're going this route) to reward people for offering the feedback. Best of luck to you and Robert on the sales front! <em>The fact remains that most people prefer to read books in their traditional form and they remain willing to pay for them.</em> Certainly true for now. It'll be interesting to see what the future brings. David Great insights, Shel! I like the idea of giving away the whole book (if you’re going this route) to reward people for offering the feedback.

Best of luck to you and Robert on the sales front!

The fact remains that most people prefer to read books in their traditional form and they remain willing to pay for them.

Certainly true for now. It’ll be interesting to see what the future brings.

David

]]> By: shel israel http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/cory-doctorows-e-freep-paid-biz-model-working-in-wiley-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-140428 shel israel Fri, 08 Dec 2006 19:38:11 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5911#comment-140428 The chapters we posted online for free most certainly boosted sales more than anything else. However, those chapters were rewritten, sometimes extensively, and always with blog reader imput. The blog chapters are often quite different than what appeared in the book. The "free" issue aside for a moment, there is one other interesting aspect. The people who purchased e versions of Naked Conversations in the form of a PDF file from Amazon, overwhelmingly hated the product. .PDF was of course designed to be printed out, so that form of e-book begins as less than perfect. Likewise, our blog statistics showed that when we published entire chapters, sometimes over 10,000 words long, readership fell of dramatically. I just published a lengthy interview about Palestinian and Israeli kids joining in a private online community and readership fell off once again. The fact remains that most people prefer to read books in their traditional form and they remain willing to pay for them. Actually, we gave away extremely few free finished copies of Naked Conversations. In retrospect, it may have been wise to give away more of them as Cory suggests in his article. The chapters we posted online for free most certainly boosted sales more than anything else. However, those chapters were rewritten, sometimes extensively, and always with blog reader imput. The blog chapters are often quite different than what appeared in the book.

The “free” issue aside for a moment, there is one other interesting aspect. The people who purchased e versions of Naked Conversations in the form of a PDF file from Amazon, overwhelmingly hated the product. .PDF was of course designed to be printed out, so that form of e-book begins as less than perfect. Likewise, our blog statistics showed that when we published entire chapters, sometimes over 10,000 words long, readership fell of dramatically. I just published a lengthy interview about Palestinian and Israeli kids joining in a private online community and readership fell off once again.

The fact remains that most people prefer to read books in their traditional form and they remain willing to pay for them.

Actually, we gave away extremely few free finished copies of Naked Conversations. In retrospect, it may have been wise to give away more of them as Cory suggests in his article.

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