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Originally Posted by horrormall
The digital access key is only for PDFs and you do not have to ever re-registered your file again. If you read the FAQs, you'd note that it stated you only had to log in to the file with a user name and password once every 365 days.
As for losing sales left and right, please understand that digital downloads are a very small fraction of the business done here.
But it'll grow and we'll evolve.
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Think about the first statement from a reader/purchaser point of view and you'll see why the second is true. To keep reading the book, you must keep track of and keep re-entering the password info. I don't know about you, but those passwords have a tendency to disappear from my desk, eventually, especially if you wait a few years between re-reads. Unless, of course, the books are so unmemorable (or awful) that a re-read isn't an issue.
The third will depend on whether you change to attract a wider audience. Sure, a few will steal your books (then again, every print copy is read by many, many more people than paid for it, as well, for the average book). As a few authors have found, there is a price point at which most people won't steal your work (some will, even if it is "free") and making 10% off of 1,000% more in sales is actually more profitable, even at a sale price of 10% of the print cost ($10 book, eversion at $1, but instead of 500 sales, you get 500,000 .. and yes, there have been examples of this happening). Also, without DRM, the publishing cost drops as well (since that has to be paid for). Going to a multi-format solution will also help, since otherwise people have to attempt to convert from the PDF (which can look ok, but often looks pretty terrible).