Anyone publish with XinXii? - Page 2

Lily123 · 03-25-2011, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by MartinC

Have you tried BookBaby?

Yes, I have been using them and they are wonderful. Great service, friendly staff, timely responses.

I think there will never be a DRM discussion where people will agree. So best just to respect the publishers' decisions on that. DRM will not protect you from piracy, but from casual sharing. If your user community is all in one forum with several tenthousand users, there is a high risk of casual sharing. Thus my decision to DRM.

Worldwalker · 03-25-2011, 02:55 AM

Here's a question for you about casual sharing:

Does it cost you sales? Would you sell fewer books if some people shared them than you would otherwise? (and how do you know?)

Does it cost you more sales than you gain from people saying "hey, that's a great book, I need to buy it/the series/everything by this author"?

Take, as a random example, a mystery I picked up from a grocery store's charity book table (paperbacks $1) because I needed something to read and the only other option was romances. I paid a buck for a used book ... the author got nothing ... and until that series went from great to okay to WTF?, I bought every book at retail. 10 of them, not counting the one from the charity table. So the author lost one sale from me "sharing" (that is, buying a used book) and gained 10.

Of course, you need to have 11 books in the same series for that to work. With fewer books, the results aren't quite as good. But the basic idea is there. People who read one book will buy more. They'll tell their friends. They'll want to keep this author in business so they can read more books. We've been doing that for pbooks as long as there have been pbooks -- why should this suddenly change when they're ebooks instead?

I won't buy DRM-locked ebooks. It's not because I can't strip the DRM -- anybody with strong enough Google-fu to search for a script can do that. (including those readers you fear so much) It's because I vote with my wallet, tiny though it is, and people who DRM-lock their ebooks have plenty of competitors who don't. While they may never know that I'm spending my money with their competitors, at least I feel a bit better.

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03-25-2011, 02:55 AM	#17
Worldwalker Curmudgeon Posts: 3,085 Karma: 722357 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: PRS-505	Here's a question for you about casual sharing: Does it cost you sales? Would you sell fewer books if some people shared them than you would otherwise? (and how do you know?) Does it cost you more sales than you gain from people saying "hey, that's a great book, I need to buy it/the series/everything by this author"? Take, as a random example, a mystery I picked up from a grocery store's charity book table (paperbacks $1) because I needed something to read and the only other option was romances. I paid a buck for a used book ... the author got nothing ... and until that series went from great to okay to WTF?, I bought every book at retail. 10 of them, not counting the one from the charity table. So the author lost one sale from me "sharing" (that is, buying a used book) and gained 10. Of course, you need to have 11 books in the same series for that to work. With fewer books, the results aren't quite as good. But the basic idea is there. People who read one book will buy more. They'll tell their friends. They'll want to keep this author in business so they can read more books. We've been doing that for pbooks as long as there have been pbooks -- why should this suddenly change when they're ebooks instead? I won't buy DRM-locked ebooks. It's not because I can't strip the DRM -- anybody with strong enough Google-fu to search for a script can do that. (including those readers you fear so much) It's because I vote with my wallet, tiny though it is, and people who DRM-lock their ebooks have plenty of competitors who don't. While they may never know that I'm spending my money with their competitors, at least I feel a bit better.

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