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Old 05-20-2009, 12:46 PM   #60
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My answer to this got clobbered by my computer somehow. I'm tired of the shortcommings of these so called forum editors. From now on I will copy and paste with notepad!

I'm tired of this anyway. I started out by asking a polite question about writing a book with copy-protection and got lambasted by a bunch of fanatics with faulty logic and impossible conclusions. National and international commerce and law dictate wether there will be DRM or not DRM, not some people with axes to grind on a forum somewhere. I prefer DRM. You don't. Just go your happy and blissfull way and I will go mine. The only conclusion one can draw from all this is that a handful of people on mobileread forums won't buy DRM books. Most will. so keep Mobileread forums to your selves. I can do without it!
Somewhere earlier in this thread you asked "Which Publisher is going to continue making money and which author will make money enabling him to write more good books?"

The reason a poster referred you to Eric Flint's essays on Copyright and DRM is that he publishes through a mainstream publisher (Baen Books) whose books can be found in most bookstores in the US. And the publisher issues its eBooks without DRM because they believe that they make more money that way.

I repeat: They publish DRM-free because it makes them more money! And they do it with very low prices for eBooks as well. AND they're pulling in more money from eSales than from all non-US sales combined (around 20% of gross, and rising).

They have the numbers to show it, too. And before you dismiss Flint and Baen as being "niche" publisher and author, please note that Baen has shown these results on books ranging from poor sellers to NYT-best-sellers (even top-5 best-sellers in many cases). The majority of Flint's recent books have all hit the best-seller lists. And he has no problem with piracy either (that's not "he approves" but rather "his work largely isn't pirated" because there's no point -- it's available for a fair price on fair terms).

Far from "faulty logic and impossible conclusions" you're seeing posts from people with real data and real examples. Please go read Flint's essays on the subject. They contain actual sales and royalty data. Really. Not "faulty logic and impossible conclusions" but real hard data from the real world. Really.

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