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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
What makes so sure that wouldn't interest me, or any other possible buyer who decided to go borrow a library book on the same topic, rather than buy an eBook with DRM?
They are similar, but the example you used was a poor one. What happened to your father was not piracy. If everyone who bought one of his devices made a replica to give to each of their friends, that would have been piracy. What happened to your father is the equivalent of a NYTimes Best-Seller author stealing your next idea, sell it and make million from it, and never sharing the profits with you. Not even close to the same thing as the "email it to all your friends" that you are so worried about.
So since you don't care at all what the buyer does with the book, and it's an established fact that DRM does nothing to stop pirates from distributing a book if they want to, why bother with it? To make yourself feel better? And I don't mean that quite as condescendingly as it comes out, you're hardly alone. The music industry, the movie industry, and the PC gaming industry uses DRM for exactly the same reasons. They all know it doesn't work, but it helps them sleep better at night as long as they can try to pretend it does.
Meanwhile, anyone who wants to pirate your books will continue to do so and there is nothing you can do to stop them.
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Scaly:
You ask me why I felt you were outside my first book's market. To the best of my knowledge, my market is fairly limited to criminal investigators. Specifically those investigating crimes against wildlife using firearms. Here is what I
think I know about you:
-you own a Droid phone
-female and married
-somewhat anti-establishment
-own what I'll call non-mainstream readers
-gamer
-probably into reading fantasy genre–based on your moniker and pic
-you read the news and keep up with what congress is up to and you probably don't get that news from a piece of paper
Nothing on that list tells me you aren't a great person and I'm betting you and your husband would make a good neighbor–so don't be upset with my belief of who you are. There's a also a good possibility that you're smarter than me in a lot of areas. Two bits says you have a college degree and possess a lot of YOUTH! How'd I do?
And thus I don't think you're my market! If I'm wrong, buy the DRM protected thing and read it on your Droid. Heck, strip the DRM off it and read it on one of your other devices. I don't care! Just don't distribute it from there.
I actually still believe that DRM slows piracy–I'm an optimist–optimism can sometime bite you in the but. It means somebody is going to have to buy it. It means somebody is going to have to strip the DRM. Effort is work, even though it's minimal.
I just wish my editor would send me the final polish on book 2 so I could upload it and check the DRM box!
Enjoy your day. Have a good read and I hope I haven't offended you.
TL