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Originally Posted by Winnetou
So – no, I won’t make them available for free. No, I don’t want an impossible amount of money for them. I love the Lulu principle because the ‘formatting’ of the books is absolutely free, no fuss no hassle. If I chose to make them available to the reader, I can set an amount of money for myself – the system does the rest of the calculations. The PDFs are ‘protected’ obviously (believe me there are enough people out there who wouldn’t think twice about piracy on a Karl May translation – right down to ‘Hollywood talk’ … oh the crap that’s come my way because of what I do is unbelieveable [especially now that Karl May has entered ‘museum’ stage in his ‘home country’, which means he’s an accepted part of German heritage] and doesn’t belong here) – in that case, any e-book formats would have to be protected from that.
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Dear Winnetou.
Translation is your work and I was not trying to persuade you to give away the fruits of your hard labor. I was just asking for clarification, because our suggestions to you might depend on the options you choose.
You should be aware that none of our current e-book readers can display a protected pdf file (as far as I am aware). The only way to read it is on a PC and only a small fraction of our members use PC monitor for reading.
Most of the reading devices "out there" use only one DRM scheme, there are some readers that can not display DRM-ed (that is protected) e-books at all.
You might want to investigate options of publishing books for Kindle.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/seller-acco...opic=200260520
You have given a try to mobi format
Sony will have an option soon similar to publishing on Amazon Kindle
You might try Digital Editions from Adobe
http://www.adobe.com/products/digita...?promoid=DTEIP
With Digital Editions you have to purchase service from Adobe
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"Built-in copy protection
Digital Editions works in conjunction with Adobe Digital Experience Protection Technology (ADEPT), a hosted service that provides publishers with copy protection in both retail and library environments."
For other DRM (encrypted kind) schemes you might have to purchase similar services from DRM technology holder, so he would authorize the reader I wish to read your book on and lock your content with a key so only my authorized device can read the book.
You might consider selling books yourself.
You could produce a personalized version of graphical pdf file that contains for example credit card number or some other identification with page size optimized for particular reading device.
There are other options.