Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
Books are so cheap and easy to get that people don't bother stealing them, which is the essential rule of piracy that the music business learned much too late.
Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.
As a novelist, you have to be free. Books can't be an act of filial duty.
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
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