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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Lazer,
Hoenst question for you... DRM as you admit limits your audience. What is the gain you get for that limiting? Anyone that is going to copy your books illegally will still do it, DRM is not a deterrent as it has already been broken (check Google for how easy it is). So I guess my point is, DRM gains you nothing, but does restrict your potential audience, so I do not understand why you would do it?
I dont hate drm, just do not see the point.
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Here is my quote:
"you that don't buy DRM'd books, no problem, you're not my market" –thus I didn't say DRM is limiting my audience. (maybe I'm wrong!) My first book HAS been pirated and I don't think I'm getting any benefit from it–
it's a guide for the criminal investigator. Maybe I'm naive here but people that buy pirated books just aren't my market. My second book is about a criminal case I worked years ago about trafficking in wildlife with all sorts of ugly twists and turns.
I believe I know how to market these books and freebies IS part of that plan, but I want to control who gets the freebies.
Your second question:
"What is the gain you get for that limiting?" And my answer: I sold a 142 copies of my first book last month. $710. That's my gain. I have no idea if any pirate copies moved but frankly I doubt it. Again, I don't think it's my market.
Egotistic? No, I don't think so–or no worse than any other two-bit author. Neither of 'em are going to make anybodies top 100 list. They will never be listed as classics. Brad Pitt isn't going to play me in the movie. Neither of them are going to significantly improve my income. Both of them are educational and will serve a tiny bit of good (or at least my ego believes that). And I'll make a small amount of money off them.
Sometime this spring I'm going to rewrite my
will and have the ownership turned over to a wildlife conservation group. I hope after I
move on, they get 100% royalty and it does a tiny bit of good––and not some pirate-guy that calls himself Kim Dotcom.
Fifty years ago, my father patented a device to slice home made bread in the kitchen. He had a mold made and a producer cranked 'em out. A large corporate food company cloned them and sold them without his permission. He didn't have the money to take the pirates to court and he lost his shirt over the deal. He was a hard working man that hopes to better his family.
I don't like pirating. It didn't do my father any good and nobody has convinced me it will help me increase my market.
For those of you that feel your marketing will be helped using non-DRM. Go with it.
It's your choice, your work.