{"id":737,"date":"2012-03-31T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T11:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=737"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:04:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T07:04:37","slug":"catmachine-the-freebie-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/catmachine-the-freebie-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Catmachine: The Freebie Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catmachine.tumblr.com\/post\/20163415378\/the-freebie-experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/catmachine.tumblr.com\/post\/20163415378\/the-freebie-experiment noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-738\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"ttf12d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ttf12d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><strong>A post at &#8216;Catmachine&#8217;,\u00a0by Chris Limb, on Thursday&#8217;s free kindle version of &#8216;I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The experiment of making the Kindle edition of my book I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan available free for 24 hours under Amazon\u2019s KDP Select scheme was an interesting one and seems to have been a success in its own way &#8211; in 24 hours it was downloaded just shy of 700 times and peaked at number 50 in the Kindle chart.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this translates into a greater visibility of the book in the long run is another matter (I would hope so) but even if it doesn\u2019t one thing I can say is that hundreds more people will have read my book than before. And that, after all, is what it is all about.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading, at &#8216;Catmachine&#8217;, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/catmachine.tumblr.com\/post\/20163415378\/the-freebie-experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post at &#8216;Catmachine&#8217;,\u00a0by Chris Limb, on Thursday&#8217;s free kindle version of &#8216;I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan&#8217;. The experiment of making the Kindle edition of my book I Was A Teenage Toyah Fan available free for 24 hours under Amazon\u2019s KDP Select scheme was an interesting one and seems to have been a success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33370,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/33370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}