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Originally Posted by Nabodita
In any case, before I talk to any of the publishers, I need to be convinced whether to use DRM or not. . . . What do you think?
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The problem is that, I suspect, you have no data as to what the effect is on sales.
If I was a business person at the publisher, I would want to try multiple schemes to get numbers on what works.
Now, authors may not want to have their books be randomly selected for experimentation. Also, I'm guessing that the ratio of eBook to paper, in indic books, is low, so it will be hard to see how changes in retailing of one type of book affects the other. So getting the data will be challenging. But I can't see basing these kind of decisions, in the long-term, on something other than numbers.
You could go by the idea that the world's biggest English language publishers must have already done studies on this, so we can just follow their lead. This might mean to DRM everything except books that appeal to readers with technical knowledge (computer books and science fiction). However, there could be cultural factors so that what works with English language books is not best for yours.