How to publish free ebooks

If you are a publisher and your primary objective is to share your work and gain visibility, StreetLib is the right partner for you: setting the price of your ebook at zero cost is really simple. You only need to access the "Distribution" section in HUB and set the price to zero.

And if you change your mind later, you can easily modify the price of your book at any time or withdraw it (we explain how to do this here).

There are several reasons why it might be worth offering a free book for a specific period of time, or as additional content for your promotion.

These are the most common reasons:

If you are publishing the second volume of a series of books, it might be a good idea to offer the first volume for free during the first few days of the release of the second.
Before its publication, you can use a few pages of a book as a preview and publish it free as a small ebook.
Free content is compatible with book sales - for example with the creation of some bonus content such as a short story about a character in your novel, or a book of poems that one of the characters could write, and so on.

Proposing a free ebook also means relying on promotion and marke ( we really know how to do this!): just because a title is accessible for free, doesn't mean that will definitely be downloaded or read.

Free books on Amazon

Whatever your motivation, it is good to remember that not all stores will give you the chance to add free content. On Amazon, for example, if you are an indie author, you won't be allowed to offer ebooks at €0.00 - in fact, all books priced below 0.99 will automatically be raised to this minimum threshold, or won't be sold on Amazon at all. If you'd like to know more about how to sell books on Amazon, we have created a dedicated article for you.