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Originally Posted by Nabodita
Ahem. Ladies, Gentlemen. Could we all please take a breath?
This discussion is really interesting but my meeting with the publishers is today. And I still don't know whether I should encourage them to use DRM or not.
I would love to come back from my meeting and debate the finer points of piracy / theft, lost sales, sales due to 'discovery' and so forth but really, all I want right now is to recommend / discourage DRM to the publisher keeping in mind their best interests.
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Baen Books have never had DRM. Tor has moved to DRM-free. Simon & Schuster are starting trials of DRM-free sales.
Tor has been DRM-free for well over a year now. If they had seen any problems from going DRM-free, I'm sure they would have gone back to using DRM.
I suggest that you recommend that the publishers save money by being DRM-free.
If they insist on DRM, try advocating for 'social' DRM, where every copy is tagged with the purchaser's details. Preferably will a pretty Ex-Libris bookplate as I suggest above.
HTH