Tim Ferriss BitTorrent Bundle Downloaded 211,000 Times

Bestselling author Tim Ferriss took an unorthodox route this month, using the file-sharing site BitTorrent to promote his new book. For the last seven days, BitTorrent members had exclusive access to excerpts, unpublished writing and multimedia materials related to The 4-Hour Chef.

Today, BitTorrent revealed some statistics: “The Tim Ferriss 4-Hour Chef Bundle has now been downloaded 211,000 times. From BitTorrent, 85,000 visitors clicked to check out the book in the Amazon store, a huge number for the category. The audience has been highly engaged as well: 13% of visitors to the featured content page on BitTorrent clicked out of the site to watch the YouTube trailer, contributing to 1.4MM

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