It's because trying something for free is the best way of discovering it. And free doesn't mean sampling a quarter of a cookie - it means the whole cookie. It doesn't mean someone spraying my wrist with perfume - it means them putting a small bottle of the fragrance in my shopping bag. It means spending a weekend in a hotel and taking two showers using the same soap. It doesn't mean reading the first five pages of my book online - it means reading my whole book for free as a way of discovering me as an author.
I agree with the sentiment. Just not the method.
This guy got screwed:
What a colossal ripoff.
I went to the site, clicked the link, and I was required to give a lot of personal information (which I did). When I finally clicked the "download PDF" link, (after entering the free code) there was no PDF, only a 1 k file called "ebx.etd". NO PDF, NO BOOK.
So basically I just wasted a lot of time and gave away my personal information to your publishing company... FOR NOTHING.
Glad I didn't.
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.etd is an Adobe Digital Editions PDF file - he needs to upgrade his adobe reader software. Or just grab the mobi edition (have to enter your PID, just like most publishers; you can have up to three or strip the DRM off later) or even the LIT version (if that is your preference).
True - it isn't a non-DRM version. But it is free and you get to keep it (unlike Neverwhere and some others that have come out for online reading only or expiring Adobe Digital Editions - really, 30 days is ridiculous if we are forced to read it on our computers, especially for a book of that length).
Thanks for the clarification.
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