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Hi everyone,
Thanks for the input. Just wanted to comment on a handful of things that came up through the discussion:
1. I use Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. I have never seen anything regarding them having exclusive rights to distribute the books.
2. Good point regarding the customer's potential concern of malware. Would you be more or less concerned, generally speaking, if someone handed you, say, a business card with a QR code?
That is one other method I've considered...uploading all my files and giving people a QR code or a URL for download.
3. Here's a little more info about my work: its all public domain. If you want one of my books, its out there...where do you think I got it. However, I have gone through the effort to restore the original text, something that an organization like the Internet Archive doesn't do. My work is more niche, so its doubtful a place like Gutenberg will ever clean up the books I've done.
That said, the pirate who pays me then attempts to crack and distribute my work is wasting his time.
...which kinds of answers my own question then, doesn't it? I hadn't thought about it in those terms until right now.
Tied into this: Public domain materials on KDP only yield a 35% cut of the sales for the seller. I could direct all customers to Amazon to purchase my books, but I'd like to try getting a larger cut. Not to mention, I'm limiting my sales my excluding the likes of the Nook, Kobo, Sony reader, etc.
4. Why I'm looking into this: I'd like to get a booth at a convention in a few months. I don't think it would look good if I had nothing to sell...even if I did, because I have a sizable digital library. If I had flash drives pre-loaded with books and plastered with information about my available materials, at least I know people are walking away with something tangible...and my web URL.
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