From The Telegraph:More than two million people worldwide have downloaded Coldplay’s latest single since it was made available free online a week ago, new figures show.
That means it would have “outsold” the whole of last week’s top 40 singles “four times over” according to the band’s representatives.
The song, Violet Hill, is the band’s first single from the group’s long-awaited fourth album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends.
It was made available as a free digital download on the band’s website last Tuesday.
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My Comment: I am looking forward to the day when a major author offers for free a new and major piece of work on the web. When J. K. Rowling's last Harry Potter book was released to the public, on the same day a pirate book site made available a copy for free ..... no surprise .... their server crashed.
What would have been a smart marketing tool would have been to have only the first and/or select few chapters released to the public for free on the internet. The buzz that it would create would be millions in free advertising.
I predict that soon .... maybe this year .... a major author will be releasing a major piece of work for free on the web. I am looking forward to covering that buzz.
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