Why offer free eBooks?
I make all my novels available as free eBooks. Click on the green ‘eBooks’ circle at the top of the page or click on any novel by name or by cover image, then click on one of the “eBook” links, and you can download the eBook for free in any of over half a dozen formats. The eBooks are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which means you can copy them, share them, remix them, re-write them, and even create derivative works based on them, as long as you don’t try to do so in any commercial way. (ie: Don’t try to sell your copies, remixes, and derivative works.) You may be wondering why. I see the world divided up a couple of ways on this issue, and have drawn the following chart to clarify: There are people who can afford to pay -whether for the paperback, the half-price eBook, a single MP3 CD, or an expensive multi-disc audiobook- and people who can’t afford to pay. In my experience, and according to nearly every study ever done on the subj
