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Originally Posted by fargo
ePub has made it very easy for end users to reach ebooks' source code and change as they like. Contents and copyright information are wide open for anyone to change!
So, the question is: how can I ensure end users would not tamper with ebooks published in DRM-free ePub format?
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Don't write the books! Don't *think* about writing the books! Don't even *FANTASIZE* about writing the books!
In fact, take any book ideas you have by the neck, strangle them until they're dead, stuff them, along with a couple of bricks, into a burlap sack, tie it shut and toss the sack into the nearest ocean, preferrably a few miles from shore.
Other than that, you have to do what anyone else would do. Copyright the book, and keep an eye out for anyone who's taken it and tried to pass it off as their own work and sue the hell out of them.
Of course, this presumes that someone actually wants to steal your work and pass it off as their own. Most people won't do that. Pirate copies for their own reading pleasure, sure. But as it's so easy to spot a plagarized work, there's just not that much reward for the risk involved.
Derek