We know it has sailed. She knows that it has sailed. Yet, that tends to be the reason cited. She wants to sell the books from her own store with a watermark DRM that includes the name of the purchaser so that any copy that ends up on the darknet can be traced back to the person who bought it.
She will not sell it from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Sony or Kobo with current DRM because it is not secure enough. There have been the occassional attempts at "I want everyone to get good quality copies and don't trust that would happen through the book sellers" and something about the illustrations. Given that her Publisher submits the copy to be sold from the various bookstores, the quality issues is a bunch of BS.
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