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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
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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I can see why DRM may be more of a conundrum for those who only publish in electronic formats.
If the book is published in paper than the person can always buy the paper copy if they are strongly against DRM.
Of course there are many who want, even demand, the easy transferability of the paper copy and the convenience of an ebook whatever the cost to the author
Helen