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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Here's my unsolicited advice to authors and publishers. For an author's first book, don't worry about piracy. But to reduce piracy against a publisher's successful authors, hire a few white hat hackers to deliberately upload damaged copies. Sometimes they can repeat chapters. Sometimes, skip pages. Randomly change the names of secondary characters. Some things, like adding insults into the faked books, should be off limits. But generally let a small anti-piracy staff use their imaginations to make the pirate reader's experience one of risked frustration.
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No, no, no, no, no!
You DO NOT want subtle mistakes. That will reflect badly on the legitimate copies.
You need to pad the book to make it look the right length, but you do NOT want to make the padding subtle.
Repeating the first few chapters to pad to the right length seems a very good plan to me. Perhaps with a "now go an buy the ebook to get the rest of the story" page after the sample ends.