I have a book for the Kindle called “Frogs in Aspic”. It is a collection of a dozen or so of my short stories. I collected all the “Weird Tales” type stories and bundled them up as a mobi file. They have been listed for sale on Amazom for about a year without one sale! I did not promote it at all, and I guess the name, “Frogs in Aspic”, is not compelling.<\/p>\n
I decided to distribute free as a torrent. I packaged as though it were pirated and listed it on Pirate Bay. I put it out over Thanksgiving weekend. Since then it has been averaging 3 or 4 direct downloads a day (from my machine). I have seeded about 200 copies directly so far and there have always been about 8 to 10 other seeders. These are people who leave the torrent available on their machines so other people (peers or leeches) can download the files from any of about a dozen locations. If you guestimate it out, it looks like there have been as many as 1,000 downloads of the book.<\/p>\n
Some people collect torrents, some people make the files available on pirate sites. Some people actually read the books. I am hoping that a hundred or so people will read the book and one or two even pay for “Error Message Eyes”. I think that is not all that likely as someone who downloads a torrent will not pay for a book.<\/p>\n
I have four other books written, but not polished and converted. I have a collection of Hard SF stories. I have a collection of “Not Safe For Work” stories (not porn, but with adult content). I have a collection of Heroic Fantasy that I needs a lot of work. I have a book on Harmonica Music Theory that I have written mostly but needs much checking. I am in no rush to publish these because I don’t think they will sell well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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