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E-book Giveaways Correlate To Higher Print Sales

Posted at 7:57AM Tuesday 09 Mar 2010

Giving away an e-book seems to lead to at least a spike in sales of the print version, Researchers at Brigham Young University have found, especially for fiction.

Wired

Journal of Electronic Publishing

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