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Originally Posted by MrPLD
Sadly, while there are a few people who live by that mantra, there's a lot more who'll sooner take advantage of anything in order to leverage themselves further.
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Perhaps I should explain my thinking a little further, since that's the flag that most people will raise.
Do I think that some people will steal my books or put them up on the darknet? I'm sure some will. (I don't think the majority will, though.) Most of my books are
already up on the darknet. But I think the people inclined to steal them will do so, DRM or no DRM. All but a couple of my books are available
somewhere without DRM already.
So, leaving aside the whole question of whether having my books pirated helps or hurts (you know, that obscurity thing), let's just ask, would I rather have some of my books floating around illicitly shared and have more readers, or have the distribution tightly controlled and fewer readers? There's no way to know which would mean more money for me.
My answer is, more readers. I have said before that I would rather go broke from unwisely giving too much away than go broke because my books are languishing in obscurity. Sure, there's a risk. But I think it's a risk worth taking.