Neil Gaiman: giving away ebooks sold my print books

Neil Gaiman and his publisher have published the results of their free online release of his novel American Gods earlier this year — the conclusion? Giving away ebooks for free sold books:

The Indies [ie. independent booksellers — Neil] are the only sales channel where we have confidence that incremental sales were driven by this promotion. In the Bookscan data reported for Independents we see a marked increase in weekly sales across all of Neil's books, not just American Gods during the time of the contest and promotion. Following the promotion, sales returned to pre-promotion levels.

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(Thanks, Neil!)

See also: Free download of Neil Gaiman's American Gods