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Smashwords might be fixing the 'people need a central place to go' issue.
Here is what I think we can do in the short term, to reward authors who *do* get it AND who are producing a quality product:
1) As many of us as possible should resolve to read at least one DRM-free ebook a month so we can develop a reasonably comprehensive sample of good books to recommend.
2) Have a thread here, stickied, where people can post about these books---not an announcement or shill thread for authors who want to promo their book, but an actual review thread where people can recommend the DRM-free books that were good and post about the ones which were not.
3) A 'reward the author' campaign. Pick one author a month whose works are available DRM-free and do one of the following: 1) if the author has a tip jar on their website, tip them and send them an email. 2) If the author does NOT have a tip jar, then buy a print copy if available and donate it to your local library. 3) If neither tip jar nor print copy are available, buy a copy for another MR member as a gift (maybe we can set up a thread for this where people who gift someone then become eligible to be the next recipient, round robin style?)
So that's a start...
Now, how to work on the publishers?
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