Google Books And Creative Commons
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If you’re willing to let the price of one or more of your books be “free,” then Google wants to help you on the publicity front. Google Books has started to take Creative Common licenses into account.
As explained by a post on the Inside Google Books blog, “Creative Commons licenses make it easier for authors and publishers to tell readers whether and how they can use copyrighted books. You can grant your readers the right to share the work or to modify and remix it. You can decide whether commercial use is okay. There’s even an option to dedicate your book to the public domain.”
The post then continues, “We’ve marked books that rightsholders have made available under a CC license with a matching logo on the book’s left hand navigation bar. People can download these books in their entirety and pass them along: to friends, classmates, teachers, and so on.”
And considering that Google Books is, well, Google Books, making your works available through it does indeed seem likely to lead to some sharing.
The downside, of course, is the lack of income that’ll accompany this move, but you could always try to use just one or two books as a hook to grow a fan base.
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