Thread: DRM Good or Bad?
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Old 03-29-2012, 10:37 PM   #250
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You obviously don't care about your readers.
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DRM doesn't help you. It doesn't stop anyone from making an illegal copy.
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Bottom line: In the last few years, Patricia Ryan has gotten ~$30 from me, minus whatever Smashwords takes.

Ellen O'Connell has gotten $12 from me, $3 for each book she offers, and will -- more of the same --

You have gotten $0 from me. As long as your works are DRMd, you will continue to get $0 from me. Also, I won't be recommending your works to other readers, because I haven't read them, because they're offered in formats I find inaccessible.

How is DRM helping your bottom line? Who is buying your work because of DRM, who wouldn't buy it otherwise?
You know the old saying "Opinions are like a****." Everyone has one.

All of you have opinions that are yours. I too have the opinion that I state above and it seems to be working for me.

Elfwreck, you don't know that you haven't read my work. Granted you haven't read a drm copy, but besides that, you can't be sure. I have been around a bit longer than eBooks in general. I will point to first ISBN issued to an ebook in 1998, and the MS Reader in 2000 as the practical first dates, with more in 2002 and the start of wide use maybe 2005 with Amazon mobi and 2004 and 2006 with Sony.
Sure my books can be and are pirated. I check on that on occasion. Sort of like going in the book store and checking the racks.

A few authors make a decision to not use DRM and then most of those publicize that in order to curry favor with "their public."

How many significant authors do you know that do that?

Bottom line?
Only one year has seen me make more from books than engineering. That was that "ghosted biography" I mentioned elsewhere, a once in a lifetime event. Of course then I was still a young engineer and didn't have the same position with the company I now enjoy. My wife who is an entrepreneur herself reminds me occasionally that I have a job I enjoy, a high position with an interest in the company that will continue when I retire, and that it is very steady and dependable. What author can claim that? Not many?

DRM has faults but it is the best system available. Hopefully it will get better, and perhaps in the future once a book is sold to a person, in DRM form for a certain eReader, that person will have a lifetime ability to transfer that one copy of the book to any eReader they then choose.
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