In terms of the sale price of your eBook through online retailers, you can offer your eBook for free through both Kobo (Indigo-Chapters) and Smashwords (Apple Books and Barnes & Noble Nook). However, Amazon Kindle has a minimum list price of between $0.99 and $2.99 (depending on the eBook file size), unless you sign up for Kindle Select, in which case your eBook must be exclusively available through Amazon, and you can only make your book free for 5 days out of every 90 day period. Your Managed Distribution annual fee includes one annual change to the book's retail listing details/metadata. If you would like to temporarily discount the price of your eBook, please email support@tellwell.ca and we'll be happy to help.
On the other hand, you might not want to offer the eBook for free to anybody who finds the book online. But perhaps you have a mailing list, and you’d like to give the eBook away for free to anyone who signs up, for example. Authors have the option to do this; however, consider that the people to whom you want to give your book may be using different devices, and all free ebook apps are not created equally. So if you choose to send out your epub file, include a disclaimer such as “I recommend you view the attached file using Adobe Digital Editions, which is a free app that can be downloaded for free here”
The other option you have is to send the PDF of your book including front and back cover. The advantage of this option is that a PDF file looks the same regardless of the device it is viewed on. However, keep in mind that you would be circulating a version of your book that can be freely shared without your knowledge or consent.
Please speak to your Project Manager about purchasing additional design time to have the PDF file created, or to purchase your final epub (ebook) file.
If you have marketing services, then you can also ask your Marketing Consultant about our Goodreads Giveaway service.