Following in the footsteps of Joe Konrath (go buy his book!) I’ve been giving my ebook away for free. Joe is an e-book god and he’s been revealing his own stats on ebook sales at his blog, A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing. He subscribes to the philosophy that ebooks should be inexpensive and I completely agree (hence the price of my ebook). Joe has given brilliant advice on covers, pricing, blog tours, etc and I took it all to heart. Over the course of the last week when I released the ebook, I gave away over 1000 copies of the book in PDF format and had almost 1000 views on YouTube for my book trailer. This is in only 6 days. I have found sites around the web where people are already reading/commenting on the book. I’ve gotten my name out there in a very short period of time. And I’m only one person doing this. So what’s next? I’m going to try a few things in regards to generating interest (blog tours, reviews, etc) and I’m curious as to how this is going to translate into sales. So I’m going to try to track that and relate that information here. Let’s see what works and what doesn’t because I’m sure others can benefit from this. Now, I don’t have Joe’s name recognition yet, but I certainly hope it will be almost as successful. Watch for future posts on The Experiment.