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Someone reads a book, and then tells other people about it. “Word of mouth” has traditionally been an important way to promote books. The second reason is to raise the profile of that book when the publisher does start charging for it (again).

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Similarly, a publisher may be hoping a reader of a free book may buy other books by that author or from that publisher. Many of the promotional titles fall into this category.

The gift chronicles ireader series#

For example, a publisher might offer the first book of a series for free, hoping that someone will go on to buy the other books (which won’t be free). The first is to promote the sale of other books. There are a couple of main reasons for doing this. A promotional title is offered by someone who could legally charge for it (and may have done so in the past and may do so in the future). Thousands of the free books in the Kindle store fall into this category.īooks (and other materials) published after 1922 in the US may fall into the public domain if the publisher didn’t do something it could have done: published it without proper notice (although that’s not longer necessary) or failed to renew an expiring copyright.Īs I write this, there are about two hundred free promotional titles in the Kindle store. Other people may do it for the glory, to entice people to get non-free books, or to sell advertising (at the site that has the free books, or, hypothetically, in the book itself).īooks first published in the US before 1923 are in the public domain…in the US. It’s a volunteer effort with no advertisements on its website or in its books. It’s the grandparent of all free e-book sites, and in fact, other sites use PG books as source material. Michael Hart’s Project Gutenberg is an example of this. Why do people go to the effort to put out a free e-book of public domain material? This is true in paper, too, by the way, but it’s easier to publish an e-book than a p-book (paperbook). That’s why there might be a hundred editions of Romeo and Juliet. Anybody can do whatever they want with the material, including selling it. When a book is in the public domain, the public owns it. It varies by jurisdiction (usually a country) and it’s changed over time (it’s been getting longer in the US). Copyright law has specific limitations built into it, the most significant one is that there are typically time limits. This is the most common reason e-books are free. There are three main reasons why a book will be offered free: It’s important to note that it isn’t typically Amazon that makes a book free for the Kindle…it’s the rightsholder (except in the case of public domain books).