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Originally Posted by p3aul
Sure they're annoyed, The ones who want to copy your books are, anyway. Who cares? I don't care. Would you want someone stealing your creation that you've worked long and hard over? You have worked 12 hours day for months, and this is like your baby. you make it into an ebook hoping to recoup some of your time and effort. Suddenly its all over the internet and there are illegal copies everywhere! Somehow I think authors like J.K. Rowing would agree with me.
Owning an ebook reader that can hold thousands of ebooks doesn't mean you use bittorrent to download files containing thousands of ebooks like those people who download the songs do. I've got no sympathy for them when they get caught!  |
The point is books are stolen anyway, even if you don't release them as ebooks. People scan them in, ocr them and proofread them before passing them on to others. Is this wrong, sure. Is it illegal, yes. Can it be stopped, no. J K Rowlings books are already available in ebook format all over the internet, and by not releasing them officially all she is doing is losing sales.
I'm quite happy to buy drm'ed ebooks, but only if the drm can be removed. Why? because I don't ever want to be left in a situation were I can no longer read the books I've legitimately purchased. What if the format I've bought my books in is rendered obsolete in the future? Look at what happened to amazon's first foray into ebooks. What if my next reader doesn't support the format my current books are in? Without drm I can easily convert them, with it I can't.
DRM doesn't work, it can either be removed relatively easily (look at epub or mobi) or if not rendered pointless by the scanning in of hard copies.
So I have to ask you, why would you want to use it if it can so easily be bypassed?
If the books are reasonably priced and people want to read them, they WILL pay for them.