Why Indie Authors Should Never Pay to Give Their Books Away

There are better ways to find new readers.

DE Writes
The Writing Cooperative
9 min readOct 24, 2023

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For popular authors with massive platforms, book giveaways can be a great way to create buzz and excitement acting as a promotional tool that ultimately helps sell books. But for many “lesser known” authors, specifically indie authors like myself, giving away your books might not yield the…

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