Thread: how do I add DRM after publishing it without?
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Old 08-05-2011, 03:32 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by sourcejedi View Post
What we get on MobileRead: An ambiguous post that either suggests people who bought the non-DRM version are somehow going to see it replaced with the DRM version. Or possibly that the author/publisher is somehow deciding to "get their own back" on the people who bought the non-DRM version. I probably meant something slightly different anyway, since neither of these makes sense, and I was in too much of a hurry to spell my swear words correctly. If you want to know what I actually meant, it's your responsibility to ask for clarification. Better be polite though, or I might take offence and just rush out a rebuttal with no connection to my earlier words.
If it were possible for an indie author to make this change, then the reader would get a "your book has been updated, possibly to correct formatting or typos; if you want it, reply with 'yes'' type of message, that does not tell you what has been changed (not that Amazon would really know what had changed, unless this was the only update applied in DTP). The reader says: hmmm, I'm all for fixing formatting and typos and sends back a "yes" reply, but instead gets a DRM'd book, rather than a DRM-free one.

It doesn't really matter - the person who posed the question (which should have been done in the Amazon DTP forum, really, since it is an issue specific to publishing on that particular platform), pretty much knew the answer ahead of time, as he/she had already tried it and found it could not be changed.

The book can be removed by the author (which will piss off current purchasers, as they will lose the ability to see that they have purchased it and lose the ability to lend, as well as screw the author's reviews and sales rankings), then must be republished with DRM added.

Adding DRM in this case has a lot of negatives and pretty much zero positives (as it is simply ignored by anyone that wants to remove it, so any anticipated "protection" is essentially non-existent, other than adding restrictions to those who do purchase the book).
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