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Originally Posted by mrkai
Steve...by putting your books on the Amazon store, you have just taken the first step.
All you guys have to do is put your stuff on Amazon and lock it down.
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I doubt that will help. Someone will just figure out a way to hack the Kindles or the files, and remove Amazon's DRM.
The only weapon I have is to appeal to the customer's sense of fair play, to wit:
If you want my book... pay me. I have no other effective tool at my disposal, I recognize that, and so should everyone else involved.
If I keep getting paid, I'll keep putting my books out. If I don't get paid, I'll write for myself, or not, but either way they'll never see the light of day. Since writing isn't my chief source of income, I have no problem giving up on it if it is not profitable for me, and I will if it comes to that.
So: Either the world plays fair with me, or I stop playing. For me, it's that simple. (Lucky me.) And if the world is okay with me, and many other voices, going silent, that's life. They can go back to watching
American Idol, and I won't feel that bad about it.