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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
Jane Fancher you could also spam the 'darknet' with flawed copies of your work. So that anyone searching for a free download instead of just paying for it at your site would likely just find that flawed copy. Then again that just might provoke the sort of response apparently given to Harlan Ellison.
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It would depend what the "flaw" was. Something minor and most people would just ignore it and consider it part of the price for getting it for free. Something major and it would put off legitimate try-before-you-buyers and defeat the whole point of the exercise. I still think "buy me" nags every few pages would get the best results. Sure someone would strip them out, but most of the up and downloaders of ebooks never read them so there would still be more copies of the hobbled version floating around than the "fixed" version.