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Originally Posted by delphin
My guess is that when she first started using a word processor, it was with a ripped off copy of MS Word, Word Perfect, or some such, which clued her into just how vulnerable digital media is, and made her resolve to never let herself be ripped off the same way.
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I would think that you are spot on with that observation. She seems to know just enough to cut off her nose to spite her face, but not enough to use it to her own advantage. For all of the lost sales she obviously worried about losing via piracy, she probably lost just as many potential legitimate sales when her readers realized that she was never planning on making the books available thus, in some, removing the ethical block regarding downloading an ebook they probably already own in paper format.
I've got a friend with that level of technical disinterest. She wouldn't even connect her computer speakers - "What do I need them for?" she would ask me. This went on for years and years. She, a news junkie, finally discovered internet radio a few months ago and now she has her speakers hooked up. I, of course, was small enough to say to her, "I TOLD YOU SO!". LOL