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| | Prime Palaver #6 |
 | | As a practical proposition, the theory behind the Free Library is that, certainly in the long run, it benefits an author to have a certain number of free or cheap titles of theirs readily available to the public. |
 | | If being available for free in the Library has hurt me any, with that book, I'd be puzzled to see how. |
 | | Making one or a few titles of an author's writings available for free electronically in the Free Library seems to have no other impact, certainly over time, than to increase that author's general audience recognition-and thereby, indirectly if not directly, the sales of his or her books. |
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