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Originally Posted by Hitch
{sigh}.
People attribute NO value to digital products. They think it's okay to just take it and go. I would have been one of those arguing, before I started this business, that DRM was just SILLY. Now, I know better. The whole "oh, I want to read my books on my ninety-bajillion devices, and this inconveniences me" is just complaining; real geeky e-readers with multiple devices just get rid of DRM when they want. It's the other 99.99% of ebook readers that need DRM as a deterrent. Sadly, the public just isn't that honest. It's been a shocking revelation to me, and I'm sorry I know it. I wish I could have continued to happily trip through life thinking that the average person is honest. In a horrifyingly large percentage, they're not.
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Hitch
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not my forum really...
but...
i think anyone depending on pay from individuals can well understand you feelings, but I think you mix two things into one. One is casual theft, other is stealing. As a professional you have a person to person contract with your client. If your contract says "I'll do the job, pay me if you will" you are attracting thiefs. You tell takers
"Take me". The takers will come and steal from you!
By casual theft there is no contract, there is just opportunity: it is lying there, you can take it or leave it. The casuals come. The question is: would they pay for (or even look at ) it if it was not casually available? I think no.
As I see it the book readers have no choice: once they have they realized they love it, they have to acknowledge it (to 99%, there are always some f exceptions) with money. I'm even paying Brandon Sanderson because I've casually read Robert Jordan... well, Harriet is still there... The casuals become readers or vanish into no consequence.
So -
no DRM! because it is only nuisance. Can you imagine what I have to do to bay "Skin Game" on my Linux system?. Casual theft would be much easier really! But then it would be stealing! Which book readers don't do if it is possible.