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Originally Posted by p3aul
With that kind of thinking, I'm wondering if you are all from Somalia! Just like the CD generation! You think nobody should keep you from owning any kind of computer file you want. What kind of distorted thinking is it that "If you can get it for free, you're going to run out and purchase it!" Just like the signature say's in one of Mobilereads' members " If you don't pay authors, soon you won't have any books!" And I doubt very seriously that pirated books are increasing J.K. Rowlings sales. What kind of logic is that? Before most of you were born, probably, J.R.R. Tolkien had a blurb in his books that said" This publisher, only, has the write to print these books in America. Those who have respect for living authors will buy this book and no other" He did this for the obvious reason we are discussing now. But no, I bow to your superior knowledge. The financial departments of all these publishing houses have concluded that copying books in digital format hurts their sales and hurts the authors, but what do they know? Do you think that, knowing it would increase their sales, that they would forbid it?
Don't you think it a bit selfish to want authors to write for the sheer love of writing. I think that's a bit idealistic. Experiments have shown that websites who cater to budding writers, who sell their books for little or no cost, soon fold. The writers who don't write well would never even get published in the big publishing houses. That's just how the system works. If all you want is quanity, not quality, then by all means continue to support free books, but please give recompense to authors who request it.
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You are not reading the replies or you are missing the point. DRM doesn't prevent piracy, so what's the use of it?. With DRM you just piss off your paying customers while your pirate readers laugh at you and at the people who paid for an ebook and cannot do what they want with it (for example, moving them from their old reader to a different make new one). When you write a book and sell it in paper format, you no longer control what the user does with it. You would never dream of telling a reader "Not to be read in bed" or "You are not allowed to carry this book to the bathroom" or "It is forbidden to write in the margins" or "Not to be re-sold".
So publish your book in paper format and give nearly all your effort to the publishing industry. Someone will scan and OCR it and make it available for download, because there is no DRM for paper books.