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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
If you are going to sell digital books, you need to support both major formats, Kindle (mobi) and ePub (everything else).
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not necessarily true. I'm not trying to take over the world. I just need to service my customer base, which is perfectly fine using iPads and purchasing a download from wherever we tell them to.
They are bound by law to have the training. I've provided the work in print for years. *They* have requested the move to digital. If they request other formats, I can accommodate. But, it's not like I'm losing customers because I only support a certain file type at this time.
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However, the DRM only supports a number of simultaneous users, not a finite number of users, for Kindle.
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this actually sounds like a road to a working solution. So, you're saying I can upload a file valid for 100 simultaneous users of Customer A for $500 (following my example), and if they come back 6 months later, I can retract the first file and upload a new file supporting 110 users for $50?
My only issue with that is what prevents customer B from coming in and only paying the $50 and have a 110 user license that is shared with Company A?
Is there a way to set files as 'private' or 'invitation only'? (like a private video on youtube...you can only view it if you're provided the link, and on the list of approved viewers)
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I don't knoe how the Adobe DRM for ePub works. Plus, you'd have to contract with Adobe to use their DRM, unless you sell through Kobo or something.
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all new words to me. I do know that I looked in to Adobe Content Server and it's $10K plus transaction fees. That's be tough to recoup at my volume.
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And, of course, to use Amazon DRM, you have to sell through Amazon, and I don't know how that could work with a variable number of licenses. Maybe sell a different ASIN for different number of licenses?
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yes, I think that is what would happen. There's just a lot of questions I still have about who these license holders are allowed to be.
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No one in the world of ebooks is going to buy a book in some strange format.
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They will if we tell them to. It just has to work ;-)
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It doesn't sound to me as if your sales model is very well-suited to the world of ebooks.
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maybe. maybe not. that's why I'm asking. But, it doesn't seem that much of a stretch to have an e-model support a viable print model.