“Unlock Hidden Strategies: 18 Unconventional Tactics to Skyrocket Your eBook Sales on a Shoestring Budget!”
Those initial readers serve as powerful social proof and can help you to land more sales in the future when your free offer expires, both through the reviews they leave and their word-of-mouth recommendations.
This strategy is even more powerful if you have a series of ebooks.
Because in that case, all you have to do is make the first book in the series free forever and charge for all subsequent books in the series.
The hope is that your first, free book will be good enough to hook readers in and get them invested in the story so that they’re willing to pay for the rest.