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Archive Home > 2010 > January > 23 > You don’t need sales to be a best-seller

You don’t need sales to be a best-seller

Amazon gives away books for the Kindle to try to hook readers amid pricing debate

By Motoko Rich / The Bulletin
January 23, 2010

Here’s a riddle: How do you make your book a best-seller on the Kindle?

Answer: Give copies away.

That’s right. More than half of the “best-selling” e-books on the Kindle, Amazon.com’s e-reader, are available at no charge.

Although some of the titles are digital versions of books in the public....

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