Free e-books dissertation published
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
John Hilton III's blog summary of his recently approved doctoral dissertation. Excerpt: "Deseret Book placed eight books online for free download. All of these were “backlist” titles....This study compares sales of these books the ten weeks before they were available for free with the ten weeks after....During the ten weeks of the study the books were downloaded 102,556 times. Collectively, the books sold 68 more copies in the ten weeks they were online for free versus the ten previous weeks. This was an increase in sales of 26%. Over the same period of time in 2008, sales of these same books decreased by 38%. Furthermore, a study of comparison titles that were not put online for free found that sales of comparison books decreased both in 2008 and 2009...."