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Originally Posted by MrPLD
There's one big hiccup though with writers selling direct to readers - the delivery mechanism is painful. This is one area where Amazon has done things very well. Until we have a consistent, vendor-neutral system to deliver new content to eReaders that doesn't involve people having to side-load then selling Writer->reader directly is going turn off a lot of potential readers.
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I believe the opposite is true. If you take away the ability to side-load the book, then it has to be put onto the device directly. Not all reading devices CAN download though. Try to sell with DRM, and you just ask for angry customers. Most ereaders that have a browser allow downloading - there is your way to get it directly on the ereader. As long as you let them copy it and use on each and every reading device/computer/phone/tablet they might have. Don't want multiple devices? Not even DRM is that restrictive as to have one copy one device, but multiple devices registered to the account ...