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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
No, you're absolutely right. If you don't never wanted me to buy your book to begin with, you didn't limit your market by making sure that I never will. But if you want to sell to as large a crowd as possible, then putting DRM on your book is counter-productive to that goal
You said earlier in your post it's been pirated, but you doubt it has been pirated? 
The question we DRM-boycotters want you to ask is, "how much more could I have sold if I hadn't used DRM to my book?" If your answer to that is, "I don't care", that's your choice and your loss.
This is so far from being even close to relevant to DRM on eBooks that I am baffled that you think it's a valid comparison. |
ScalyFreak:
No disrespect;
you are not my book's market. That's not a problem for either one of us. Even if it wasn't DRM protected you would not be interested in a book about analyzing firearms evidence at a crime scene. Am I wrong? Am I missing a market component here?
As far as the "been pirated issue." I'm not going to scroll through my threads here to see how poorly my writing has been that it's managed to confuse you and others. Probably MY miswriting. The truth is this: You can get it on-line from an unauthorized download as a PDF, so yes, it's been pirated. However, the book has such a limited market,
criminal investigators, that I really doubt the pirate site has distributed any copies. If they have I really doubt it's generating interest from the criminal investigators of the world to run out and buy a legitimate copy. But it still pisses me off and copyright law has been broken.
As far as the Sony Reader? As near as I can tell, that's about 10% of the e-reading crowd out there, perhaps smaller since the creation of tablets such as the iPad Droids. A Sony Reader owner can still buy my book in print. How about all those people that just buy their books at the grocery store or the mag stand? Nope, not going to get my market share there either! Good-grief. I'm an admitted two-bit self publishing author that's never going to be found in Wikipedia.
And about copyright and patent laws? I think it's pretty damn close to being the same issue and DRM (as poor as it is) and copyright are intermixed. Or am I wrong?