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Comment on Freely ye have received by Jared Stein

Jared Stein — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 03:29:42 +0000

Nice! Thanks for sharing this, John. I think the School of Ed made a good choice.

Comment on Interviews with ten authors who give away their books by Gideon Burton

Gideon Burton — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:27:51 +0000

I hadn’t seen the article yet but am very happy to know it has appeared. This is vital work for the open movement. Thanks for leading the cutting edge!

Comment on Free Books by Deseret Book by Kay Hammer

Kay Hammer — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:34:50 +0000

I love the free books, but then I often like free things. At this point I won’t be purchasing any of the free books. I don’t think that is going to hurt deseretbook, because I shop there often. I like doing business with a company that gives good custumer service. I think the free books make for excellent customer service, which encourages me to do my shopping @ DB rather than another book store. Keep up the good work.

Comment on Interviews with ten authors who give away their books by Kunio Suwa

Kunio Suwa — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 03:13:12 +0000

I found this article extremely interesting.
Although I write mostly in Japanese and relative littele in English, I would consider my books open on Internet and available free.

Comment on The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital Versions of Books on Print Sales by admin

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:58:14 +0000

I went back and double checked that table. Lines 23 and 24 have negative values listed. Thanks for the comments and reading!

Comment on The Short-Term Influence of Free Digital Versions of Books on Print Sales by Rich tatum

Rich tatum — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:10:49 +0000

In table four, titles 23 and 24 should have negative values.

Interesting study!

Regards,

Rich
BlogRodent

Comment on Dissertation Draft–first two chapters by Neal

Neal — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:52:12 +0000

It seems like your research indicates that people want to find new books without jumping a price barrier, and that when they find something they like they are willing to pay for it. Anjuno.com is trying to set up something like that using a pick your price model. There should be some interesting changes coming to the book world in the next few years.

Comment on Deseret Book Downloads Exceed 100,000 by Aaron Ellsworth

Aaron Ellsworth — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:47:09 +0000

Hi John,

Sounds like a great study! I’d love to see the affect your study had on sales figures. Please keep me in the loop!

Thanks,

Aaron

Comment on Free vs. The Long Tail by admin

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:13:05 +0000

Matt — thanks for sharing those thoughts. I agree there may be troubles with this “diminishing marginal returns.” I am interested to see how this plays out with books where sales have flattened out or even with out-of-print books. If the commercial life of the book is over, is there any harm in giving it away? I don’t think The Long Tail is available for free, and the written version of Free is no longer available for free. But an audio version of Free is available at http://hyperionbooks.com/free/. I really enjoyed it!

Comment on Update on Free Books from Deseret Book by Matt Sommer

Matt Sommer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:31:19 +0000

Are they tracking how many additional sales they generate from the giveaways? Why don’t they have a feature that tells you what other books you may like based on your choice of downloads? If I download the parenting books (which I did) then I should also see other books I may like based on the download.