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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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.
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You may be missed. Someone else will take your place.
That was the OTHER thing I finally came to. Its not personal. Well it is to ME, but its business at the end of the day.
the point of locking down the stuff with DRM was to make it more appealing *to steal*...preferably, from you, on your terms, where the act of this "stealing" got you paid
Exploit the market. Really, that's what is going to come down to.
And American Idol seems to do a good bit of business...its a brand.
Funny, that