Good marketing helps a bad book fail faster.
But what if you’ve written a great book and no one knows it exists? Obscurity is an author’s worst enemy. If readers never find book one, they’ll never read book two. Many authors know that if they could just get readers to read the first book, they’d be hooked for the whole series.
But how do you get readers to discover that first book? Advertising is a great option, but it costs money. And the earliest ads are typically the least effective because you’re still figuring out what targeting works for you and your book.
One strategy that has worked for many authors, especially those short on cash, is to make the first book permafree.
This is the “drug dealer strategy,” where the first hit is free. To make this work, you have to write the kind of book readers get addicted to. There’s more to it than just lowering the price.
So how can you use the permafree strategy to sell books?
I asked Dale L. Roberts, author of Secrets of the Permafree Book (affiliate link). He’s a successful YouTuber and an award-winning author.
How could giving away free books be good for business?
Dale: I get tickled whenever people start talking about permafree books because it was one of the “gateway drugs” for me in this business. It wasn’t until I started implementing permafree books into my publishing strategy that I saw a huge upward tick in my business.
Thomas: This seems like the worst thing you could do for business. People say, “I spent a lot of time and money writing that book. Why would I give it away for free?”
Dale: I get it. My knee-jerk reaction was the same. When someone first told me, “You’re going to write a book and then make it free,” I thought, “No, I’m not.” You pour your heart and soul into a book and invest time, energy, and sometimes money to make it polished. Why would you make it free?
But about a year and a half into publishing, I decided to trust the process and try permafree. And it worked. My original strategy was to build an email list. I created permafree assets that brought in more readers. I could run free promo deals regularly, which got more eyeballs on my books. Inside the books, I included calls to action at the front and back, encouraging readers to join my email list.
I’ve always viewed permafree as a strong growth tool for building an email list, but many authors also see the value of read-through or buy-through when they make the first book in a series permafree.
Thomas: I experimented with the permafree strategy early on. I was brought on as a fractional marketing director for a publishing company that was short on cash. I suggested to the CEO that we make the first book of our bestselling trilogy permafree. At first, he thought I was crazy. But to his credit, he went along with it.
We made the first book free, which cost us revenue since it was our bestseller. But sales of books two and three doubled or tripled during the experiment. For example, if we were selling 100 units of each book—300 total—we lost the 100 units of book one, but book two jumped from 100 to 200 units, and the same with book three. The result was a significant increase in ebook sales, along with a boost in paperback sales due to the buzz.
Additionally, it brought attention to the publishing house. If that series had more books, it would’ve been even more profitable because of the read-through.
Interestingly, it didn’t work for every series. I tried it on our worst-performing series, but it had no impact, because the books weren’t addictive. If people DNF book one, it doesn’t matter if it’s free. They’re not going to continue. This is a win-or-nothing strategy. If you can write well and grab attention, it works. If not, it won’t fix a bad book. Giving people a free sample of something they don’t like doesn’t help.
At what point can and author know the permafree strategy isn’t working?
Dale: How long would you try before saying, “This isn’t working”?
Thomas: Read-through percentages help. It doesn’t make sense for a standalone book to be permafree, unless you’re a nonfiction author using the book as a business card to get clients, consulting, or speaking gigs.
For a typical novelist, making a standalone book permafree doesn’t make sense. It might make sense if the standalone is an older book and you want to draw attention to newer books. You can also try KDP’s price pulsing and experiment with making a book free for a day. If you run a BookBub free promo and it doesn’t increase the sales of book two, then permafree won’t work for that series.
Dale: That’s brilliant. I’d never thought about testing with BookBub first. If you land a featured deal and get nothing afterward, you know permafree won’t work.
What are the steps to making a book permafree?
Thomas: Walk us through your approach. You literally wrote the book on permafree. Let’s say we’ve got a strong book with follow-ups in the series. What’s the next step?
Dale: I wish it were as simple as going into Amazon KDP and setting the price to zero. But you can’t. The lowest you can go is 99 cents. You have to list the book for free elsewhere first.
Step #1
First, make sure your ebook is not enrolled in KDP Select. If it is, wait until the enrollment period ends. Once that’s done, publish the book to a viable competitor such as Apple, Barnes & Noble, or Kobo. Smashwords is an option, but Amazon won’t price-match it because it’s not a major competitor.
Step #2
Once you have it offered for free on the big platforms, gather the links from all regions, including the US, UK, and Canada. Then go into your KDP dashboard, scroll to the bottom, and click “Contact Us.” Give them the links and your ASIN. They’ll send you an email saying they reserve the right to price-match at their discretion.
Step #3
Then, you wait. In my experience, Amazon almost always price-matches to $0 within 24 to 72 hours across all regions.
Thomas: If you do have trouble with it, get your superfans to click “Report an issue with this product.” One issue you can report is “lower price somewhere else.” Then have them paste the URL of that book on Apple or Barnes & Noble, where it is listed for $0.
Amazon doesn’t care about you as an author. They don’t even really care about their investors. They only care about their customers, especially for the store, because all the money for investors comes from AWS and the corporate side of things.
Supposedly, Amazon even has an empty chair in meetings to represent the customer. They are very customer-focused. If you can get customers to complain that Amazon’s prices are too high, they will price match.
This isn’t an official Amazon-approved method because Amazon doesn’t want authors using this tactic. They want authors in KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited so their books can be free through KU.
But what’s nice about a permafree strategy is that it’s free for all Kindle users. For example, I own a Kindle, but I’m not a KU member. If your book was permafree, it would be free for me, whereas the KU version would not.
There’s a much bigger group of former KU users you can reach with a permafree book.
How can you make the most of your permafree book?
Thomas: After we’ve lowered the price and Amazon has sent us an email saying, “We found this price lower somewhere else, so we’re price matching it down to zero,” does that automatically make the book a success?
Dale: No. I wish it were as simple as pressing a button, but it’s not. Sure, it’s free on Amazon’s marketplace and other marketplaces, but now you have to get the word out.
This is where marketing and promotion are critical. If you’re going to create a loss leader out of something you poured your heart into, you must market and promote it with equal energy.
Promo Services
One thing I suggest is free book promo services. There are a ton of them. I even compiled a list of sites that promote free books for free. Some are better than others, but they’ve given me a fair number of downloads. That’s the first thing to focus on.
Email Marketing
The next area is email marketing. Inform your audience first. Say, “This ebook is permanently free. If you enjoy it, please share it with someone else who would too.” There are many ways to approach it with email.
Thomas: I love the idea of a “tell-a-friend” style email. It feels pushy to say, “You need to buy this book.” I might still do that if I really love the book, but it’s much easier to say, “Hey, it’s free,” and recommend it.
Now, it’s not as powerful as a free-for-a-limited-time offer because urgency hacks people’s brains. So there are advantages to both permafree and free pulsing.
What’s nice about permafree is that it plays really well with PR. If I do a podcast interview and six months later someone listens, I can still say, “I have a free book you can get on Amazon.” That’s an easy sell.
For email marketing, “Tell your friends this book is free” is good, but it’s even better if you cultivate a sense of urgency by saying, “Act before Friday at midnight.”
Dale: One of my favorites is submitting it for awards. Secrets of the Permafree Book is a four- or five-time award winner. Anytime I won an award, it made promotion easier because I could say, “I just won the prize for Outstanding Creator Awards in Nonfiction for 2025.”
Then I’d send people to the article. They’d see it was a big deal and be more likely to download it.
Reviews
Reviews are another tool. Lean into them, whether one-star, five-star, or editorial.
I also avoid the “buy my book, buy my book” approach. Instead, I ask, “How do I add value to the conversation?” Maybe I deliver a point from the book, share a short excerpt, or even post character art.
There are so many ways to promote, and it’s not limited to permafree books.
Thomas: All the marketing tactics that work for regular books work better for permafree books because there’s less of a barrier.
The one exception might be advertising. When you’re paying for clicks, the whole engine runs because the clicks pay for themselves. That still works with a series, but you have to know your read-through rate and the lifetime value of a customer.
For example, if I pay $3 for clicks to get a reader and that reader eventually buys $10 worth of my books, that’s profitable. But it may take a year to get that $10, so you need the liquidity to cover the gap while waiting for the money to come in. Cash flow is the complication.
Other than that, almost any marketing tactic we talk about on this show applies to permafree.
Another email tip is to add a message to your onboarding sequence titled “A gift for you.” Inside, you show the cover and say, “Here’s a free gift! It’s my book XYZ. Get it on Amazon, Apple, or wherever.”
It doesn’t feel like a sales pitch because you’re genuinely giving value.
Dale: I agree. The book itself is valuable. But let me push back a bit, and I think you’ll agree. Remember the days when Facebook groups were big for authors?
Back then, there was always someone who’d pop in and say, “Hey, my book is free on Amazon today.” And people would respond, “We don’t want your free book.”
That person would insist, “This is valuable. I’m giving it away for free.” But when you ask someone to buy or download your book, even for free, you’re really asking them to read it. You must respect that.
Leading with “It’s free” isn’t always the way to add value. You have to know your place. If you join an author-only Facebook group and start promoting your permafree romance novel, it’s not going to work. None of those authors is looking for that.
It’s like going to a roofing convention and trying to sell roofing supplies to the suppliers themselves. They already have what they need.
Free can be valuable, but the real value is in the book being read.
What’s the most important principle of selling?
Thomas: The number one principle of sales is that you have to believe in the product you’re selling and that someone will benefit from it.
They’re not just buying with money. They’re also buying with time. The time I invest in reading your book is far more valuable than the money I spent, because I will live the rest of my life and never get back the five hours I spent reading your book. So you’d better write a good book, because you just cost me five hours of my life.
For some people, when they hear about the book’s topic or plot, they’ll say, “Shut up and take my money.” They’ll see the value immediately.
Here’s an example. Imagine a book where a chopper full of Marines from an active war zone is transported back to medieval Europe or ancient Rome. The Marines have their gear, equipment, and training. Initially, they’re powerful, but every bullet they fire is one they’ll never get back. Do they conquer? Do they survive? What happens next?
If you wrote that book, I’d say, “Shut up and take my money.” I wouldn’t be price sensitive. But if you offered me a free romance book, I wouldn’t be interested because I don’t read that genre.
So your example of trying to sell a fiction book to a group of authors is a good one. But if you were in that same author group and said, “Here’s a book about KDP tactics or how to market your book,” suddenly you’d have product-market fit. Suddenly, the book is a perfect fit for the audience.
Knowing where to promote your book is really important. Different books appeal to different readers, and at different times. A beach read isn’t the same as a book I keep by my computer for work.
Why doesn’t “get my free book” work?
Dale: I want to be clear that there’s value in “free,” especially if you’ve written a killer book. But too often people just say, “Buy my book. It’s free,” and that’s it.
There’s no value added and no context. Why is this book important? Being free alone isn’t enough. You need to give undeniable proof that the book is worth more than $0, that it’s something people will value.
Too often, I see authors just link-drop and say, “It’s free” or “It’s 99 cents.” Then they disappear and wonder why nobody bought their books. It’s because they didn’t deliver context.
You need to give people something to latch onto that makes them say, “Take my money!” There’s nothing wrong with promoting the book itself. Just make sure you provide value and context, not just “Hey, it’s free.”
When is permafree the wrong choice?
Thomas: There’s another pitfall for authors with permafree. Sometimes, deep down, you don’t think your book is any good. You don’t think it’s worth charging for, so you say, “I’ll make it free. Then at least it has value.”
That’s a terrible place to be.
Often, the book really isn’t that good, and the problem isn’t the price. The problem is the book itself. You need to improve your craft, read classics in your genre, study bestsellers, and work with talented editors and beta readers. Develop your taste and write the kind of book people want to read. Free won’t fix a weak book.
The other possibility is impostor syndrome. Your book really is good, but you don’t believe it. If that’s the case, I don’t think you should make it permafree either. You need to learn how to ask for money. Learn how to say, “This is worth what you’re paying.”
The number one rule of sales is believing in what you’re selling, even if you created it yourself. You’d think all authors would have that belief, but many don’t. For indies, it’s even harder to believe because they don’t have a publisher handing them a $50,000 advance as proof of belief. It’s harder to know whether your book is any good, so it’s hard to know if you should charge $5 or $10.
Dale: Yeah. I think authors often attach their value to the money instead of the art. Honestly, impostor syndrome happens to me regularly.
Thankfully, I have a support system. My editor is not a yes-man. She tears my work apart, which makes it better. When I revise and she sends it back with no red marks, I know I’m on the right track.
I also have strong beta readers and an ARC team. By the time the book hits the marketplace, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it’s good. Even if my monkey mind says it’s not, I already have validation from trusted people.
Thomas: Those who won’t hear professional critique from their editor will hear only crickets from their readers.
Those who won’t hear professional critique from their editor
Thomas Umstattd, JR.
will hear only crickets from their readers.
How should authors handle negative reviews?
Thomas: It’s not that editors protect you from one-star reviews. You actually have to earn one-star reviews. When my authors get one, we throw a party. A one-star review is often the best thing for sales.
You can email your list and say, “I got my first one-star review.” Your fans will rally, leave five-star reviews, and sales often spike. It’s also a badge of honor that someone thought you were important enough to criticize.
The easier thing is to ignore you. Leaving a one-star review takes effort. In many ways, it’s a sign of respect.
The real danger isn’t bad reviews; it’s no reviews. If no one is finishing your book, neither your friends nor your critics will leave reviews. That’s the bigger problem.
Dale: I come from a background in pro wrestling, and one of the worst things that can happen as an entertainer is to go out and hear nothing from the audience. You always want some kind of reaction, whether it’s cheers or boos. You can take that parallel and apply it to authorship.
In my first two years, when I got a one-star review, I would lose sleep over it. I would personalize it and think, “I’m a hack. I’m terrible at what I do.”
Nowadays, it’s a celebration because I like to see the balance. Stephen King, Jackie Collins, and so many others get one-star reviews. So you just have to embrace that.
Worst-case scenario, if you see a one-star review and you feel triggered, don’t look at it. Reviews aren’t for you. They’re for readers.
Thomas: This is something I’ve had to adjust to as well. For years, Novel Marketing was just a podcast. We’d occasionally get one-star reviews on Apple Podcasts, but podcasts don’t tend to get a lot of negative feedback because it’s such a commitment to listen. Most people just move on to the next show.
But about a year ago, I thought, let’s actually try YouTube. In the past year on YouTube, I’ve received more mean and nasty comments than I did in 10 years of podcasting. I know you’ve been a YouTuber for almost a decade, so you understand this.
It’s something YouTubers have to adjust to. I had to put on my big-boy pants. The comments can be nasty and personal. It’s part of the cost of being a public figure.
Many people want to write and hide. They think that if they use a pen name, negative critiques won’t hurt.
Dale: It still hurts.
Thomas: People think that if they use a pen name, there won’t be any consequences. But if you use a pen name, people might assume you’re AI. You’ll get the same negative comments saying, “This was written by AI. That’s a stock photo. This person isn’t real.” They’ll even photo-match you to your real name, and your pen name won’t protect you.
Dale: And remember, you’ll get a lot more reviews with a permafree book. Your number of ratings and reviews will increase. That’s good, because more reviews give context. But with permafree, I’ve found my books tend to get lower average star ratings, simply because of the larger volume. More readers mean more critical feedback.
Is that something to be upset about? No. Does it mean I should take my book off the market? Not at all.
The ratings are still above average. But I did find that I got many more reviews.
Back when I was running my fitness brand, I had several permafree books from 2014 to 2017. Around 2018 or 2019, I pulled them out of permafree and put them back into regular pricing.
The nice thing was that those books already had hundreds, if not thousands, of reviews. So when I relaunched them with full pricing, I already had that social proof.
How do I start charging for a book that’s been permafree?
Dale: Just increase your pricing on the other platforms. Amazon will see it, price match it, and adjust.
If you want them to be quicker, you can do the reverse of what we discussed earlier. Tell Amazon, “This book is back to $4.99 on Apple in the US, UK, and Canada.” But I don’t even bother with that anymore. When I want to change the price, I raise it elsewhere, and Amazon adjusts.
What does permafree really mean?
Thomas: That’s the one downside of the term permafree. It makes you think the book must be free forever. But that’s not what it means.
It’s more like permafrost. Permafrost can still melt or sublimate into the atmosphere. Permafree is just a term to differentiate it from a free pulse, where a book is free for 24 or 48 hours with a ticking clock. Permafree is different, but it’s not permanent.
The book we first experimented with when I was the marketing director is no longer free. The publisher started charging for it again, but now it has a massive number of ratings, reviews, and fans from all those free downloads.
There is a limited number of people who read free books, and eventually, you tap out that market. There are always new people entering, so it doesn’t run dry, but downloads taper off over time. The first year of permafree gets more downloads than the second year, unless you have a big marketing event.
Pulling a book in and out of permafree can be a tactic. Adjusting the price can rejuvenate sales. That’s an advantage indie authors have. They’re willing to experiment with older books by trying a new cover, changing the price, or moving in and out of KDP Select. Those kinds of tweaks can really move numbers.
So don’t feel like you’re stuck with permafree forever.
Do you see movement on platforms like Apple or Kobo, or do you just use them to get Amazon interested?
Dale: Honestly, it’s more of the latter, but I do get good downloads on Apple and Kobo. Apple has always been strong. Google Play Books Partner Center is another fantastic option for permafree.
They index your content and make it discoverable online. I had a fitness book called Chest and Arms Home Workout Plan that, for some reason, started getting thousands of downloads per day. It was substantially more downloads than I was getting on Amazon.
I never figured out why. It was early in my process, and I didn’t know how I tripped that algorithm. But it was impressive.
Thomas: I wonder if those were AIs training on your book.
Dale: This was back in 2014 to 2016, so if it was, it would have been a very early version.
Thomas: That’s true, it was early. But if Google Play made your free book public to the internet, there’s no strong barrier to keep data gatherers from scraping it.
OpenAI doesn’t do a lot of its own scraping, but some companies vacuum up information and resell it to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and others. So many models feel similar because they’re trained on the same brokered data.
Those brokers don’t care about language. They just want new words. Having a large language model familiar with your book could have marketing advantages. We did an episode on optimizing books for AI recommendations, but I didn’t even think about permafree as a way to help with that.
It might be worth looking into whether Google is blocking LLMs. Permafree could get your book ingested into the models faster, which could be a feature or a bug.
Dale: That’s an experiment we should definitely try. Maybe a case study for 2026.
How does piracy affect sales?
Thomas: I do know many large language models get their books from pirate sites. If you want your book ingested quickly, that’s currently the fastest way. I don’t necessarily recommend it, but remember being at a writer’s conference around 2012 or 2013. An acquisitions editor told me one of her authors uploaded his book to a pirate site in violation of his contract.
Sales went up, and she was dumbfounded.
That’s part of why the record industry stopped going after music listeners. They found that the people doing the most pirating were also buying the most CDs. Buzz is buzz.
So let’s say you have two authors: Dale and Bale. Dale’s book gets uploaded to a pirate site, and a million people read it. Bale’s book doesn’t. Who’s going to make more money over the next year?
Obscurity is your biggest enemy. Being free won’t cure obscurity, but it helps. And being famous absolutely cures obscurity. Sometimes the pirate networks help you more than they hurt you. To learn more about piracy, check out our episode Plagiarism, Copyright and Is Piracy Really a Problem for Authors?
Thomas: I know my book was pirated because a friend told me he got it from a pirate site. He does not like DRM on a moral basis and is against digital rights management. He was happy to give me the money for the book or buy my lunch, but he did not want any DRM.
You have to realize there is a sector of the internet, particularly tech-savvy folks who already know what DRM is, who hang out in those parts of the internet. They have money and will spend it, but not always in the usual ways. They may like the ebook, then go on to buy the paper book, which is very common.
How does permafree affect sales of other book formats?
Dale: One thing many people overlook with permafree books is that you can still make money through other formats. If you have a paperback, a hardcover, and an audiobook, you have three versions.
If you drive a lot of traffic to a permafree book and gather ratings and reviews, people will buy more of those other products. I recently discovered this with one of my shorter essay-length books, How to Write a Book in 48 Hours (affiliate link). I made it permanently free, and the hardcover sells about a dozen copies per day regularly.
As for the free version, it fluctuates from one to a few dozen downloads per day.
Hopefully, people will realize permafree does not mean you’ll lose all sales. You are only giving up some ebook revenue. You can monetize in other ways. Some readers dislike ebooks. By offering multiple product variations, you increase discoverability and give readers options.
Thomas: I also encourage you to offer a hardcover as well as a paperback, especially if you are targeting younger people. Readers buy books for different reasons. Some younger readers do not read paper books, but they love to own and display them. They decide what to display on their shelves based on what they read on a Kindle or listened to in their earbuds.
That kind of reader will pay a premium for the prettier version of your book so it looks good on the shelf. They will not crack the spine. They want a perfect copy to display as a status signal of taste, preferences, fandom, or even religiosity. I have noticed this is generational.
Older readers tend to care less about the physical quality. Boomers grew up with mass-market paperbacks. Once you read them, the pages and binding fall apart. That format barely exists now. The ebook basically killed it, and you only occasionally see it in grocery stores.
Then you have paperback and hardcover. Many Gen Z and younger millennials lean toward buying fewer books, but nicer books. Some of that may be because they are still filling their shelves. A typical boomer house already has shelves full of books bought long ago. Once a shelf is full, adding a new book means taking one off, which is psychologically hard.
All of this supports your point that ebooks do not completely cannibalize sales. Some readers want paper to underline and highlight. Others want audio and like to move back and forth. There are many reasons people buy multiple copies. I am a millennial who listens to most books but still likes to own and display them.
Dale: It is more satisfying to have something physical. When you hold up a hardcover, people say, “Let me see that,” and flip through it. You cannot do that with an ebook. You only see the product listing and think, maybe it will be good.
To learn more about how to print books, listen to our episode titled Printing the Future: Print-on-Demand with Offset-Quality by Bookvault.
What genres benefit most from the permafree strategy?
Thomas: Permafree as a tactic is fairly genre-dependent.
My guess is it is least effective for children’s books. Children’s ebooks do not sell well, and children’s books are not often in a series. Picture books are usually standalones.
The best marketing for children’s books is on the back cover, where you show the other titles. You can have a preverbal child on your lap who cannot talk yet, and he will point to the one book pictured that you do not own. That is savvy marketing.
Dale: Market to the kids. If the kids are invested, the parents will follow.
Thomas: Also, young children tend not to have e-readers, so this extends into middle grade and YA. YA ebooks sold really well, but they sold to women in their forties, fifties, and sixties, which shifted the YA market. The YA category is still trying to recover from that surge of older readers buying ebook copies, who are very different from the hardback-buying teens who are the actual YA audience.
Dale: One of the things we talked about earlier was having the book be part of a series. But I have had plenty of successful standalones that worked as satellites to a flagship book.
For instance, I mentioned the Chest and Arms Workout Plan. I wrote it so that all roads would lead to my flagship book, the 90 Day Home Workout Plan. The message was clear: if you want to learn more, go check out my bestselling book.
Those standalones worked because they had a purpose. The key is to make sure there is clear language in the book that points readers toward your flagship title. Do not just assume people will find it.
Thomas: For nonfiction, if you have an ecosystem of expertise and your books are interconnected, you can make one of those books free, and readers will still bounce around the constellation of titles.
But if you only have one nonfiction book—your magnum opus, your treatise on a topic—and you make it free, hoping to make up the difference in paperback sales, you may not succeed.
This tactic favors authors who have more than one book.
Dale: I think you’d need at least half a dozen books to really see the effect.
From a fiction standpoint, if you want to use standalones, think of them as satellites. They could be prequels, sequels, interludes, or novellas that still lead readers toward your flagship book.
That is the same philosophy we use with reader magnets to grow email lists. You can essentially do the same thing with a permafree book.
Thomas: You can also think of permafree as a timed strategy. For example, consider taking three months off from KDP Select, making the book permafree to reach new readers, and then raising the price and putting it back into KDP Select.
You can create urgency by sending countdown emails to your list saying, “It will only be free for three more weeks… two more weeks… this is your final chance.” That kind of messaging fosters urgency and can work for a standalone novel, even one not in a shared literary universe. You just need to be strategic to make it work financially.
What final advice should authors consider?
Thomas: If an author wants to make their book permafree for a time, what encouragement and tips would you offer?
Dale: Treat it like any of your other publications. Put time, attention, and energy into marketing and promoting it. That does not mean just dropping it into Facebook groups. You need to promote it regularly and intentionally.
If people do not know it exists, they will not discover it or read it, and you will have wasted time and money. Be purposeful. Even if it means consulting with other authors in your niche, genre, or with experts, talk through the decision before pulling the trigger so you are confident this is the right move.
The beauty is that if permafree does not work for you, you can stop. Try it for a few months, a year, or a couple of years. If it is not for you, that is okay. It will not work for everyone.
Thomas: Although actually, we do not wish it worked for everyone, because the fewer authors using this strategy, the better it works for those who do.
Dale: That is true.
Thomas: You will hear people saying “permafree is dead.” I always wonder what their motivation is. Maybe they are trying to make it work better for one of their series by reducing competition from free books.
Connect with Dale L. Roberts
- DaleRoberts.com
- Podcast: Self Publishing with Dale
- YouTube: Dale L.Roberts
- Book: Secrets of the Permafree Book (affiliate link)
If you are a Kindle user, you can get Secrets of the Permafree Book for free. Well done, Dale, following your own advice.
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