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Originally Posted by HarryT
Watermarking involves incorporating data which identifies the purchaser into the actual book. There are lots of ways that this can be done, and effective watermarking generally involves inserting the information in multiple forms and places. Some of them will be visible - others, not.
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Aaah. You're right HarryT. Commented without knowing the details of watermarking. My bad. Will research watermarking.
@SteveEisenberg:
You're absolutely right on
all counts. The ratio of eBook to paper isn't low, its non existent. Well infinitessimally small anyway; I've only found around 100 - 200 ebooks being retailed online and most of those are out of copyright anyway.
Taking the lead from leading global ebook publishers and distributors, it would seem that some form of DRM (=encryption?) needs to be present to satisfy the publisher.
Found
this interesting article from 2013 about TOR Books UK going DRM free and finding no discernible increase in piracy. Not sure how relevant or important this is.