How do you think new authors got published in the past? Did agents go door to door asking if anyone was writing anything? Authors have always had to market themselves.
And the people who do stumble on your book's title by chance ("Arthur Chu said he read this book and really liked it! He has 40k followers!") are way, way more likely to do a quick Google and look to see if it's available for free to "check it out" After all, you're nobody
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The inspiring ending to this story is that your book is in fact available for free but it's SO GOOD that it goes viral nationally, you became famous, and it makes millions of dollars This is not going to happen
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The only sales you are EVER going to get is that brief week of maybe fifty or sixty people "checking out" your book, and whether you make ANY money from this is entirely dependent on whether they can find the free version within a few minutes of Googling or not
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Again, I have real, physical books that are a story that was originally written on Reddit. It was free, but it wanted to support the author, and that was one way to do so.
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You're an outlier, and the number of people who actually did so probably makes next to no difference to that author's finances Like when authors on that scale say your appreciation matters more than the money itself, they're right, the money bought them a few pizzas
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