The Long Tail: Follow-Up on a Free Book Experiment

Late last month, Random House’s Crown imprint launched its first free book experiment, which quickly became more controversial than the publisher expected. Crown released Scott Sigler’s new book, Infected, online as a free (no DRM) pdf on March 27th, five days before it would be available in stores. The hitch was that this was limited-time deal: on March 31st, the day before the book went on sale in stores, they would take down the file.