Although idea seems painfully simple, it appears to be uncharted territory. Many people circulate jokes over Internet as a marketing tool, and many people circulate eBooks, but nobody seems to be circulating joke eBooks - until now. Stoecklein says that their eBooks take advantage of massive appeal of humor, but he stresses that hyperlinks in their books are not deleted by readers like they are in regular email jokes. Therefore, potential for subsequent web site traffic is much greater.

RESULTS:

Roye and Stoecklein launched freejokebooks.com on March 3, 2001 by sending one of their eBooks to just a handful of friends and family members. Within days, they had recorded over 30,000 hits from several countries all over world.

"We hardly did anything!" says Roye. "Within hours, we had people in Finland reading our books. I don't know about you, but I don't know anybody in Finland... Fresno yes, Finland no."

While forecast may look good for freejokebooks.com, two comedians admit that everything is far from perfect and that they are continuously perfecting concept.

"We're learning as we go," Roye says. "We're comedians, not Internet experts. Our biggest flaw is that we often ignore rules." And what is their biggest strength?

"We often ignore rules," he smiles.

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