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Old 03-14-2011, 01:32 PM   #16
davidnpauly
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
All great suggestions. While Amazon is the single larget electronic book reader format available it by no means covers everyone. I would recommend publishing a few different formats in order to get the widest possible customer base. Are you going to use DRM? If so you will need to publish a sony, nook and epub formats. If you are not going to use any form of DRM then a simple epub format will do the job. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management is the means by which author can protect themselves from unauthorized re-distribution of their work, but is often abused by restricting where people can read your book and when they can do so. Troubble with DRM is it is easily removed.
Thanks jbcohen. I published the ebooks in various formats (except Mobi) on Smashwords. My wife suggested me NOT to use DRM since any hacker can remove DRM easily. What do you think?
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