Sentences with phrase «downloaded the book for free actually»
However, a certain percentage of the people who have downloaded the book for free actually read the book, liked it, and decided to pick up the next books in the series.
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I'm not bad at giving away books — my free romance novelette Trapped by Love has been downloaded more than 28,000 times — but books that people have to actually pay money for aren't as popular.
Honestly, Amazon's services with respect to authors are actually pretty poor: You're limited in sales, there's no way to send out review copies short of making an unofficial one yourself or, as Amazon suggests, making the book free for a day and urging the reviewer to download it during that period.
Some publishers and creators, notably Image in the case of the former, and Bryan Vaughn's and Marcos Martin's Panel Syndicate, for an example of the latter, have made their own digital storefronts where readers can buy books that are free of Digital Rights Management restrictions, meaning that when you make your purchase you download a copy that you actually own.
About the DRM - free part: I bought Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on Pottermore Shop yesterday and here's what I found: sending the book to my Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com accounts was fairly simple — and I was quickly able to read the book on my Kindle Fire, first - gen Nook 3G, and the Nook app on my Android phone. However, when I downloaded the epub file to my PC I found I couldn't read it using either the free Calibre ereader software (which told me «This file is locked by DRM») or Adobe Digital Editions, which Pottermore Shop actually recommends for reading its Harry Potter ebooks. When I attempted to read the ebook in Adobe Digital Editions I got a pop - up box telling me «Document is licensed for a different user account».