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Cory Doctorow wrote that giving away his books has made him alot of money. He acknowledged that there is no empirical evidence to suggest that giving away books has increased his print sell through numbers but that his books have sold better than other authors at similar points in their careers and have outperformed his publisher’s expectations. It’s important to note that Doctorow’s publisher is Tor, the largest science fiction publisher in the world, a division of Holzbritnz.
Doctorow said
Most people who download the book don’t end up buying it, but they wouldn’t have bought it in any event, so I haven’t lost any sales, I’ve just won an audience.
Wiley is interested in this and tried it with Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s Naked Conversations. The book continues to sell well and the publisher believes that no more copies would have sold if the entire book was not available on the blog.
Ross Anderson, another Wiley writer, wrote Security Engineering. This book was proclaimed by Information Security Magazine as the
“the most important security text published in the last several years”. It is online and …
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