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Why I’m Offering All My Books for Free!

4 reasons why you may want to offer yours for free as well

Jocelyn Soriano
My Freelance Writing Journey
4 min readDec 14, 2024

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I was analyzing my books’ sales reports when I realized some points that made me adjust the price of my books on all of the platforms they’re available.

Thinking about these things and considering other factors regarding my books, I decided to offer all my books on Gumroad for free.

As for those on other platforms like Amazon, I’m offering the digital copies for $0.99 or less.

(Note that on Amazon, you can’t normally reduce your book price to less than $0.99. To offer it for free, read my post How to Make Your Amazon Book Free Outside the KDP Select Program)

Here are my reasons for giving all of those books away:

1. I’m counting on people’s generosity

I can’t believe how generous people can be when I look back at the sales figures for some of my free books on Gumroad.

Thinking about it now, I received so much more than if I had offered the books at prices I normally thought they could sell. I even received tips in addition to the price people paid for my books.

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