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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Individualization can be done automatically by software (likely by some mix of email address, purchase timestamp and book info which is then hashed). Then just keep a copy in a database presumably connected to customer purchase information/record.
Creating watermarked ebooks and storing that info isn't the problem. It's the enforcement and active monitoring of piracy sites, torrents, etc. that's expensive. Plus, it doesn't prevent casual piracy. Because of this, it's not worth it for most individual authors to implement.
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I'll take your word for it. I looked into watermarking about...5 years ago, trying to find an alternate solution, something middle of the road, and at that time, there was no automated WM solution available.
I just looked again, just now, and at least, on the first page of Google results, NONE of the solutions are automated; most can do a single "document" at a time, and one of them requires that DRM is ALSO provided, on the file, first. The two "batch" solutions I saw batch files, yes--but it's the same watermark on every file.
I did not see ONE single piece of software that would work with eBooks, or automatedly other than batching the same WM over and over. I saw ONE product, contentraven, which has dynamic watermarks in a closed environment, on "normal" documents.
So...it may not be quite as simple as you make it sound. If you know of existing, deployable solutions, I'd really love to hear of them.
Hitch