“What I’ve Learned From Failure” e-book, free for 24 hours
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I wonder if a possible market could be made from offering half of the content for free, with the assumption that if you like the first half enough, you won't mind paying for the second half, and if you didn't like it, you wouldn't have wanted to pay for it anyway.
i.e. Watch up to the first half of a movie/tv episode for free (like a big trailer), if you're still interested, pay for the whole thing?
Easily applicable to books/songs. We already have a limited kind of "try before you buy", or Amazon's "look inside". But the problem with these is that they're akin to movie trailers - selecting the best bits of the film. Making a significant portion (logically the first X%) available might allow people to make more informed choices. Then again, that might result in fewer sales...
PS. There appear to be some encoding issues, I can see "â€TM " instead of "'" in some places in the pdf.
So, you can implement the feature you suggest right now!
This is kind of a pain on a book by book basis. Each one is at a different publisher, has yet another username and password etc.
The good news is that they will be doing a Humble Bundle for ebooks in the future. Humble Bundle also allows coming back later and increasing your contribution even after the promotion has ended.
Source: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blog...
On Xbox Live Arcade, AFAIK, all games have mandatory demos that can be upgraded in to the full version at the end.
especially http://leanpub.com/stealthisbook, which is also free!
1. Don’t pay, and tweet about it including @leanpub, they are evaluating other payment options and woul dlove to hear from you. 2. Don’t pay, but email me an Amazon gift certificate in any amount you please. 3. Don’t pay, but email a copy of the book to five people who ought to read it.
Not sure if this is rational, but it's an interesting reaction.
I'd be interested to see stats comparing the bounce rate and revenues from this experiment to a) regular paid downloads, b) direct free download link with no slider.