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Originally Posted by cudaboy_71
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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Actually, DRM is managed by the Content Server authorizing a list of license keys, and a license key can AIUI permit a given number of simultaneous devices to use it. For instance, Adobe DRM allows 6 mobile devices and 6 desktop instances of ADE to access an ebook on the same ACSM license file.
Amazon supposedly can allow the publisher/author to specify a max number of simultaneous devices that a given purchaser can use at once.
I suppose you could sell the books to a corporate Amazon account and have all their employees access the books through the same account. But you wouldn't be able to upgrade their simultaneous use numbers. You could use different ASINs for that, but I am wondering how you'd transfer them over. I don't believe Amazon has any infrastructure for discounting a title
depending on whether you bought another product.
(I wish they did, that would get rid of those boxed-set ebooks
and allow you to buy bundles of separate books.)
Or sell them x number of licenses through your private Adobe Content Server. Then, since you control usage, you can charge them however you much for bundles of licenses, and discounts on new ones, etc... all things that you cannot do while the Content Server is managed by a disinterested party like e.g. Kobo or B&N.
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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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That is the price you pay for having someone else invest their time in developing a DRM solution.
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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.
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I would say it is the other way around. The world of ebooks is not very well suited to your sales model... which is a pity, because it should.
All it would take is having the right infrastructure developed. But nobody has set up the right infrastructure to allow a publisher to dole out ebook licenses privately. It would have niche appeal, specifically to people who want to sell bulk licenses... a very corporate thing.
Hey, maybe this is something you could start.
