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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
As Cory Doctorow point out, for most authors, the biggest danger is obscurity, not someone stealing your work. What these authors need to do is whatever it takes to get their book in front of the most potential readers. Which means making it as easy as possible for them to see it and get it - no DRM, available at a lot of places, some free copies. Sure, some people will read your book without paying for it, but if they never heard of the book, they wouldn't have paid for it either. According to this very plausible theory, the losses you will have due to no DRM are less than the gains you will get due to increased availability due to no DRM.
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Mr. Doctorow, however, uses his free e-books as a vehicle to sell his
paper books. That distribution model wouldn't work in an exclusively e-book world.