[Eric C]

I'm a Kindle indie author with a suspense novel offered at Kindle and at Scribd. I've sold nearly 300 books at Kindle in the last month and zero at Scribd, where anyone with a pc can read the novel or download it to their computer or use another e-reader.

I'm not a technical person, I'm not even a person with interest in marketing, to be honest, I just want to write my novels, but I'm willing to learn due to pragmatic considerations. I like Kindle in part because of DRM. Call me naive, I know I don't know much, but it makes inherent sense to me to protect my intellectual property. If I use ePub at Smashwords, for example, I have no control over who copies the material without paying me. (Look what happened to the music industry over the last decade.)

I share this info just to let you know where I'm coming from--and perhaps where many other indie authors are coming from--and to solicit comments for my own education as well as advice on how and where to do a better job with the marketing. (By the way, where is the appropriate place to market my book here at mobileread? I just joined today.)