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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!  |
Read the Eric Flint piece, really, please.
There are a lot of legal ways to read books for free that no one objects to - libraries and loans from friends - or very cheaply - used books. And yet people still buy books.
The points people here are trying to make about DRM, which you seem to be missing, is that a) it doesn't stop piracy anyway, and b) it's a barrier to sales. If you want to sell lots of ebooks, the way to do it is to provide an easy purchase experience for your customers - as many different, nicely done formats as you can; a fair price; and no DRM. All DRM really does is make the book hard to use. It doesn't do anything else - not for the publisher or for the readers. Publishers who forgo it are doing *much* better than those who rely on it.