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Originally Posted by JSWolf
One major problem with PDF as a format for your programming book is that if it's not DRM laden or gets cracked, it will be printed and then people will have a paper edition every bit the same as the pbook edition.
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True. I am not so naive that I trust "password protection" as a means to completely lock a PDF. If people can read it, people can crack (and print) it.
On the other hand, if you buy my ebook and decide you'd rather print it out and read it from paper, I shouldn't care. After all, you've paid for the content.
I really don't think people would do this to save money. Printing out 280 pages on a laser printer isn't free either (unless they do it "at work" or something). But anyway - that would be less money going to my printer and/or to Amazon, not less money going to me.
So: the printing isn't the problem, it's the copying.