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Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson
I've made all my books DRM-free at Amazon (except one that accidentally went through automatically before I understood what it was). I trust my readers and respect their right to be able to move the work between different devices. I give away quite a bit of stuff and throw articles and blog posts and fiction samples all over the Internet. I give and I get back. To me, it's all about community.
I foresee a day soon when ebooks are valueless of themselves--writers will need to make their money through ads and sponsorships and donations and other means yet devised. I'm not worried a bit. This gig has never been easy, and life has never accommodated writers. Readers win this round.
Scott
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I don't think the readers are winning either.
Author obscurity cuts both ways. Readers suffer, too. What about the person for whom one has written the perfect book - but they never get to read it because they never learn it exists.
This is the one big benefit of the current commercial publishing model. It's far from perfect, but it puts books where readers can find them better than any of the other available models.