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Originally Posted by ruibittencourt
pilotbob and zelda_pinwheel, thanks a lot!
I'm happy to discuss it with people that really use e-book devices!
Really it just begining in Brazil. But we of Juruá believe in digital formats as the future and we want to be in the front line!!!
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that is great news, congratulations to you and i wish you great success ! in France as well ebooks are just starting and the biggest frustration is lack of content and incompatible formats. It's very important to support the new industry standard format, epub (you can read the first page of
this thread for some information about why epub is important, and you can get plenty of technical information and help in the
epub forum and in our wiki) for this reason.
DRM should be avoided, even if you have to convince your boss / authors, because it really is ineffective at stopping file copying for someone who really wants to do it, but it causes a lot of trouble for honest customers, and a bad experience with drm will make them not want to come back to the publisher responsible for it. dixiegal mentioned having a bad experience with drm and i also have had trouble like that (i described my problems in those other threads i gave you links for). in fact many people say that drm problems actually encourage piracy, because people are fed up with paying for books only to lose access to them because of drm problems !
i think you will find that there is a percentage of people who do not want to pay for books, and they will never buy them and instead try to find free copies online. but the majority of readers understand that it is important to support authors and publishers and if you provide books at a reasonable price which are easy to find and easy to use (drm-free), you will be able to build a faithful reader base.
it's much more constructive to focus on your legitimate customers and provide a good experience for them, to encourage them to come back, than to worry about pirates and try to stop them (because it can't be done, but in the process the legitimate customers suffer a lot of problems and inconvenience).