On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, James Adcock wrote:
They do 99% of the work and then expect the world to beat a path to their doorstep to get their new mousetrap.
According to page hits, about 100,000 books a month are downloaded from my site, which is a small site compared to other sites such as manybooks.net (mnybks.net) -- and this is after I started trying to actively redirect users of my site back to PG once PG started offering MOBI and EPUB directly.
That doesn't count downloads via "Magic Catalog" which count as hits at PG.
So, it's not that people don't know about ebook reader sites offering free books -- although I suspect MOST users of Kindle don't know that free books exist that they could be reading.
Rather it's that PG chooses to isolate itself from the ebook community because PG has something better. I haven't figured out what that is yet, but I keep hearing that PG has something better.
Again, I make a simple suggestion: Get a Kindle and try using it with the PG website. You will find that it really doesn't work with the PG website. Then try using the Kindle on other websites that support Mobile Devices and see that it does work on other websites.
I think we are still miscommunicating on this. I, and Greg I am sure, would LOVE to put a mirror of your site on PG! Even to the point of redirecting all the traffic here, just to make a more permanent site for you with no expenses, etc. You can continue, exactly as before, and/or add new volunters to help you do even more. Michael