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10,000 FREE eBOOKS

Why give away 10,000+ ebooks? 

Simple Economics:

To advertise ONE $3.99 eBOOK and get 667 people to click on the ad to read the book description and perhaps some sample pages would cost me between $467 and $670 with no guarantee of any immediate purchase or a sale within a month. If as many as the optimal 10% actually bought the book after clicking on the ad, I might make $100 or less. If I'm lucky, I would lose at least $367 on books sold to perhaps 70 people.

I have 15 books in my catalog. Then it would cost me between $7000 and $10,000 to advertise them all with no guarantee that any of them would be sold or read.

On the other hand, 

If I persuade just 667 people on social media to download all 15 books in my fiction catalog when I offer them free during the JULY Summer Sale at Smashwords, then rather than getting them to read a short blurb describing the book, I’ve actually placed each book into the hands of a possible reader at no cost to myself or the reader. A person who downloads all 15 books may discovery that they want to read a few of those fifteen books either now or in a month or two; this is a better outcome than any expensive advertising campaign and costs me and the downloader only a few moments of our time. If 667 people download all 15 free books (a retail value of $51.78 + tax) that places 10,000 books into the hands of 667 possible readers at no cost. 

I’ve set 10,000 free eBOOK downloads as my goal not as an upper limit. If by some fluke 1000 people download all 15 for 15,000 free eBOOKs distributed, I would be overjoyed.

So, help me give away 10,000+ no-obligation FREE eBOOKs with a total retail value of $35,000+ by joining my campaign during Smashwords’ JULY Summer Sale from 7/1/2026 to 7/31/2026. Download all 15 (or fewer) of my eBOOKs priced at $0.00 each (FREE, but Smashwords sometimes does this by automatically attaching a 100% discount coupon). Tell your friends. Everyone is welcome to participate. I am all-in on this offer. In this promotion, I’m including this year’s new releases of my latest novels, TIME-SLIPS AWEIGH (a quasi time-travel romance) and SORCERY ON THE SUNSET EXPRESS (an alternate-history fantasy set in 1913).

Please note that all of my eBOOKs are available at most eBOOK bookstores including Kobo, Amazon, Barnes&Noble, etc. However, they will be at full retail price at those stores. These 15 books will only be available FREE in JULY 2026 at SmashWords Summer Sale. Use the following two links to decide whether to accept my gift of 15 free eBOOKs from 7/1/2026 until 7/31/2026:

  1. DURING JULY 2026 ONLY at SmashWords, DOWNLOAD 11 FREE eBOOKS described at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Ronald_DFerguson
  2. DURING JULY 2026 ONLY at SmashWords, DOWNLOAD 5 FREE YA eBOOKS described at https://smashwords.com/profile/view/R_DFerguson

On the Third Hand,

I’m currently outlining another alternate-history fantasy titled SORCERY ON THE HOLLYWOOD BACKLOT (1913). Hopefully it will be ready for publication in 2027, but I doubt that I will repeat this ALL FREE offer again.

Thanks for reading. I will be posting reminders of this campaign on social media through July 2026, but I hope they won’t sound like nags.

#Free #ebooks #boost 

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