Thread: How do you write a book in lrx format
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Old 05-19-2009, 03:29 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by p3aul View Post
My wife wants to write children's books and is leery of ebooks because she thinks they can be copied too easily, thus cheating her out of sales. I think it would be a great idea. No middleman..etc, but I don't know what kind of software would be needed to make a copy-protected book. Leaning toward lrx because I think their attempt to make a lower priced reader than Kindle is on the right track! Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Paul
Your wife might want to check out this essay by Eric Flint, as to why he started the Baen Free Library

http://www.baen.com/library/

The thing is, since the Baen Free Library was started several years ago, and Baen began selling DRM-free ebooks at reasonable prices, Baen's sales have skyrocketed. It's one of the few publishers that is not in trouble right now.

If you publish DRM-free, will there be copies out there that someone didn't pay for? Almost certainly, BUT, it's not actually ever been demonstrated that DRM *increases sales*, and lots of evidence that it decreases them.

Something to think about.
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