Another Free Book Example; Oprah Book Give Away Keeps Actual Sal...

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 02/18/2008 - 22:28

As publishers continue to fight Google over its efforts to scan books for searchability purposes, we're still seeing more and more evidence that free books don't hurt sales, but can actually help them .

The latest is that Oprah apparently promoted a year-old Suze Orman book by giving it away for free on her website as a download for 33 hours. 1.1 million people decided to download it.

Even though the book was a year old and...

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