카지노싸이트 Has Given Away Over 43,000 Free Books

is growing more popular by the month. Since June 2008 (when we first launched the program), publishers and authors have given away 43540 books on 카지노싸이트 (and that's not counting the hundreds that are available right now). In 2010 alone, we've given away over 20,000 free books. As you can see, the program has been growing steadily:



Yesterday, I was answering some customer service emails when I came across a message from a publisher. They were participating in our First Reads giveaway program, and they wanted to know if we thought it made a difference how many books they gave away. Do more people enter giveaways with more books offered? I didn't have a good answer to the question, so I decided to run some numbers.

The numbers revealed some very interesting things about the giveaway program. As you can see from the chart below, roughly the same number of people enter giveaways for a single book is offered as they do those where 20 books are offered.



There's a fairly noticeable jump when you giveaway 25 books -- those five extra copies typically generate another 100-plus entries (And in case you're wondering, we have a sample of more than 200 giveaways at the 1, 5, 10, 20, and 25 levels and a fair number at 30 and 50 as well, so the sample size is not that small). At the far end of the spectrum, you can see that giving away a LOT of books will, indeed, get you a lot of entries (though small sample size caveats apply).

So what does this mean for publishers and authors? Should they save a little cash and just giveaway a single book? The answer is no. Though offering more books doesn't tend to result in more entries, it does result in more reviews. The answer for this is pretty simple -- no matter how many people are entering your giveaway, the % of winners who review the book is remarkably consistent. On average, 45% of First Reads winners write a review of the book they receive. That number doesn't change much, no matter how many books you offer. Consequently, if you offer 20 books, you're likely to get 9-10 reviews (that's a text review, not just a rating), whereas you might only get 2-3 if you offer 5 books. Each of those reviews is incredibly valuable, as it will be seen by the reviewer's friends, some of whom will add the book to their shelves, creating that coveted viral effect.

Even more encouraging for authors and publishers is this chart, which shows that the more books you offer, the more likely a giveaway entrant will be to write a review of it (that's entrants, not winners).



While some of that is the result of having more winners (if you have 500 winners and the typical 45% of them review the book, that will represent a larger than typical percentage of entrants reviewing the book), it's pretty clear that offering a lot of books generates a lot of buzz.

But what does this mean for users? It means that entering a giveaway where lots of books are offered gives you a better chance of winning. If a giveaway for 20 books attracts the same number of entries as one for a single copy, your odds are much higher of winning the 20-copy giveaway.

So what are you waiting for?