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Originally Posted by buxton-arts
I understand the issues ...
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I'm not so sure, let's ee.
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of 'I've bought it so why cant I (and all my family and friends and people using upload sites) read it on anything
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Heck, I can do that. It's just that I want to play this above board, as it were. I
want authors to get paid. I
want them to create more books. I depend on them, for what it's worth. You know, just like this somewhat drastic logo:
It's just that DRM isn't helping anybody. It doesn't hinder copyright violators, and it harms (ok, inconveniences) the honest folk. An all-around losing proposition in my book.
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' ... but maybe you should see it as 'I've bought it (usually alot cheaper than the paper option) to read it on my Kindle'
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Yeah, that's the "rental" model rearing its ugly head. Sorry, no; ebooks are still way too expensive for that.
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As an author ... why should I spend hours and hours ... to then give all that toil away free?
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Do you really hear anybody asking for that? Because I for one certainly don't.
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Whilst DRM can be a pain it does decrease the dissemination of 'hacked' publications
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I don't see that happening, no. The biggest threat budding authors are facing is obscurity, not violation of their copyright.
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As I say - perhaps you should see the cheap ebook purchase as a purchase to read on your kindle?
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Perhaps I don't? Scratch that, I don't. (Also, where can I find those "cheap ebook purchases"? Haven't encountered many of them in the wild, apart from a few self-published authors. But they usually come without DRM anyway.)
Please tell me you're joking.