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Originally Posted by bjones6416
I can't believe I'm stepping into a DRM discussion, but...
I know a few of those Aunt Mabels who might try to share a book with DRM and not know WHY it doesn't work; just that it doesn't. Unfortunately they are the same ones who might then just google the title, end up on a torrent site, and download it illegally. Because "it must be okay if I can just click on it and get it." Just saying, clueless people are clueless. And that works in both directions.  |
Click on google link, work out which button to click on torrent site (take a few days out to get malware uninstalled by clicking on wrong thing), find a torrent client, install client, back to google, click on torrent link, find where it downloaded to, side load it to ereader.
These are, believe it or not, the average persons first forray into torrents. Admittedly after the first time and the client is installed it gets easier, but after the first time most Aunt Mabels don't try again.
We are also talking about self pubbed / small publisher books here not BPH.
Picking Marie as an example, for her new book typing
"Catch an Honest Thief" marie schneider
into google gets me on the first page - Smashwords, BearMountainBooks, Goodreads, Amazon, Kobo, Cozy-Mystery.com (Takes you to amazon after going to the page) & Shelfari.
Took me to page 7 to find something that looked like it might be a torrent site.
Also as Aunt Mabel already has the book, she would have no reason to google a book she had already bought - she knows how to get it already, she just don't know how to give it to someone else.
It's possible the may google something along the lines of "how do I lend an ebook" but that is unlikely to give them any usefull information short of "you can't" or "use the lendme feature on your reader"