When I started writing the Grove Health Science series, I would embed free versions of the books using Scribd’s service, on this website… http://sarigrove.wix.com/library

…so the following picture shows how many people viewed each book(& some other documents of mine that were on Scribd)…

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Then, I decided that maybe some people were on mobile devices & wanted smaller versions of the books, again for free…So I linked book cover images to Smashwords, where I had under 10 mb versions, also for free…

…this next picture shows how many people downloaded those smaller size books…smashwordsmay23,2015

Now the Scribd numbers & the Smashword numbers are only 2 places that track activity…

When I made Book 8 free on Amazon for 3 days, over a 100 people(who I mentioned it to) rushed to download the Kindle version(slightly bigger & higher resolution than the always free Smashwords versions)…

Now one of the reasons I made the books free in the first place is to develop word of mouth authority…This is what Createspace, Amazon’s self-publishing arm told me to do…

Another reason is that because you can edit manuscripts, even after publishing them, & I do, I wanted to make sure each book was sort of perfect before getting big publicity or selling…

Turns out that was smart because I now feel I need to go back & correct one or two glitches in each of the books…Not really glitches, but things I know now that I didn’t know then…Like for example, melatonin is in the Bismuth/Indium family, NOT in the Phosphorus family as I mention casually in Book 4…

When writing & researching & thinking, I still work like an abstract expressionist painter…Broad strokes first, work quickly for freshness, tidy it up last…

I have a whole new book really in this new WordPress Blog that I started here Christmas of 2014…Book 9…

But maybe, instead of doing that, the shiny new thing, I should buckle down & go over each of my already published manuscripts & re-edit them…

You can see & study what I am doing(& have done) in this new course I put together on GinkgoTree… If you do come across a glitch in one of the books, please write to me at grove@sent.com Sari Grove, so I can make sure to stick in the correct info while I am re-editing…joseph&sarigrovemay14, 2015

Once each manuscript is corrected for glitches, I can re-upload them to Scribd & Smashwords & Amazon paperback & Amazon Kindle…

This might take a whole year, 2015, possibly…

If not, I will then be able to move on to doing Book 9…I am guessing Book 9 will not be made available for free…(My mother & a caring drug dealer who sold me CBD oil when I could not get it legally in Canada, feel I need to monetize…)