I also love when an author uses this trick well - where they foreshadow something very subtly with basically a spoiler but you never know when/how its going to work out. Something along the lines of "so and so mentioned needing to remember to do something tomorrow, even though ultimately it wouldn't matter". (terribly poor example on my part) You're just like "ohh shit, it's about to go down but I have no idea what that means!!"
Generally I always buy ebooks and save buying physical books for the ones that I really loved. So thats one way to get people to buy physical versions when they already bought an e version (that is, create just a truly amazing book!). The other is definitely special editions and or treatments to the physical version. I just preordered the newest special edition of Snowcrash and I think it'll be my like 5th physical version (gotta have them all!)
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I also love when an author uses this trick well - where they foreshadow something very subtly with basically a spoiler but you never know when/how its going to work out. Something along the lines of "so and so mentioned needing to remember to do something tomorrow, even though ultimately it wouldn't matter". (terribly poor example on my part) You're just like "ohh shit, it's about to go down but I have no idea what that means!!"