Author, can you give books for free?

Author, can you give books for free?

They are your friends, readers and relatives,
So author, please provide free books without an alternative.

If they are nearby, atleast they must support,
By buying and helping to market books in their contacts to promote.

Giving books to all for free,
Is like you are employed, investing on goods but selling for free.

Working for a long time on content,
Monetary help is nothing in front of hard work spent.

Working on reviews and book sales on large scale,
Unexpected problems in system, mostly makes the marketing fail.

Royalty in per book sale is not that much,
Yet the bloggers asks for free books and high commission as such.

Asking for complementary books even without a reasonable cost,
It's like insulting a talent and business is totally lost.

Out of humiliation,
Authors are also forced to provide whatever people demands so as to satisfy the relation.

It is easy to make a book go live,
But it is not easy at all, to keep a book alive.

Young passionate authors are really working like a bee in the hive,
Understanding the situation, please don't irritate authors and support them too to survive.

- Sahaj Sabharwal
Jammu city, J&K, India

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