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I've posted before on these topics to say, "I'm a writer and NO ONE has ever asked me about DRM. They don't ask me whether I have it, have never complained, etc." Well, recently I made a couple of my short stories free on kobobooks. Lo! Behold! Someone actually wrote me and mentioned that one of the stories had DRM and did I mean to use it.
I explained to the reader that I have put it on about half my books (really as an experiment). For a freebie, I don't want people emailing the book (or any other book come to think of it) because it affects visibility. If people email the copy, I don't get the visibility at the vendors, and visibility is highly coveted by any writer.
At any rate, I removed the DRM from the freebie since there was a request (after some 5 years of doing this)! I have no real beef with or without DRM. The reader didn't either and seemed to have a very good understanding of why it was important for fans to download from the vendor sites.
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