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Originally Posted by frahse
The idea that "unprotecting" my work will be a boon to me, is laughable.
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... because you think all your readers are thieves and won't abide the law?
Sad I don't know what books you have published, but I sincerely hope I never bought any of them.
This is the attitude towards readers that will keep me away from the author at all costs. Like I would not shop anywhere the clerks will scream at me "shoplifting is illegal" once I have paid.
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A book also might be damaged and made unusable.
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But an ereader is not ONE book, it's a whole library of books.
And yes, even those might get damaged and unusable, but it's not very likely. But if that would happen (say a fire in my appartement), there's my insurance covering the costs.
An ereader is much more likely to die on me. And DRM will make me have to buy the same kind of ereader again if I want to read the books I haven't had time to read yet. That's ridiculous.
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On the other hand DRM's purpose is to prevent multiple (free or cheap or easy to make) copies of a book.
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Nope... doesn't... If it would actually work, there would be no pirated books. And everyone who's able to buy an ebook for themselves will be able to find out how to remove DRM and share the book - not saying they want to or will do so, since it's illegal and enough people are honest (if not, music industry would be dead by now).
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You cannot at this time have a DRM digital file that does everything good that a paper book does, and at the same time make sure that there is just one copy of the file like there will only be one copy of the paper book.
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DRM doesn't do that either. You have to rely on the honesty of the customers. It's the same as with paper books that you could scan and OCR without a problem... only that scanning would take more time - unless you send your book to a company doing that for you for 1 USD...
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So that means that the ordinary reader buying a DRM protected file is making a tradeoff. Giving up something to gain something else. If he considers that the eReader and his eBooks are a single unit, then it is pretty much the same as a large paper book.
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And who would buy a 90 USD ereader to read a single book?
The ereader is the library, not one single book. And if the ereader dies and DRM makes it impossible to transfer your books, it's not one single book that is lost, it's the whole library.