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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 hadn't heard of your books before, and went to check them out. The rundown and reviews of the first one seems interesting, but I could only find it on Amazon, not using the kindle, and having no desire to use kindle software on other platforms (I prefer something like epub that is handled in my readers native format), I am locked out of your books as effectively as with DRM.
I think this is another learning to be had for authors. Every time you make a choice to limit your work to a format, and not all of the main formats, you will lose potential customers.
For me, you broke the big barrier, I have now heard of you, and you broke the second barrier, your book looks somewhat interesting, and I feel I might enjoy it, but then I hit the one where I can't read it. I won't look for a torrent of it, it isn't worth the time, just end up not reading it.
--Carl