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11-02-2012, 07:45 AM | #16 | |
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I didn't mean to make you emotional. However, I notice that you haven't explicitly stated that you have no connection with the company. |
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We are not the biggest fans of Macs here, so we hadn't really tested it on that platform. We had received some reports that it was a bit of a pain to install and get going on Macs, but you simply couldn't do it...so that is certainly something to look into, and retest. We've been also trying the new Adobe XI certificates, and they seem to be hard to crack (not impossible, so please save it people...it's been said before....), but there is no way we know of linking that certificate to a specific device...that would be EXACTLY what we are looking for... Any thoughts on that direction? Last edited by atanner; 11-02-2012 at 07:55 AM. |
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Thanks for your posts and btw...I am 100% with you on the DRM story for SOME genres...but this one in particular just doesn't fit that. Merci! |
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If the success of your publications really is measured in the hundreds, then I'd suggest that you look into social DRM. Set up a work-flow so that you customise each and every ebook you sell for that customer - big visible well-designed bookplate at the beginning, giving customers name, a scanned signature of the author, a serial number for the book, date date purchase, etc. Encode other information invisibly throughout the book (if an ePub there are all sorts of ways to do that.). Make a mention that any piracy of a book can and will be traced back to the original purchaser.
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Brother you hit the nail right on the head! We all looked at each other like..."OK, we're done here. Let's now go and do it". We were looking at this e-n-t-i-r-e-l-y the wrong way...great great great idea! We need to discuss this point with the client, but unless there is a very particular reason, I can't see how this is not THE solution! Many thanks!!! |
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You're welcome. There is at least one firm that specialises in this area, if you don't want to spend the time rolling your own method. J K Rowling used them for the Harry Potter ebooks (although I thought they missed a trick by not having a pretty personalised bookplate).
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Now I'm completely lost again. Why would something along these lines (assuming it was novel, which this example isn't particularly) be published in a small-run DRM-protected ebook, instead of as an article in a medical journal? No doctor I've ever met is looking to learn their trade this way.
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Anyways, thanks to those that gave us such great input! Last edited by pdurrant; 11-02-2012 at 10:12 AM. |
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And the fact is that this particular example has been given makes me think that this market doesn't exist at all, since it's so wildly improbable, and makes me wonder whether this is all a hand-waving business startup idea, not a real thing that exists in the world -- so why should I grant the premise without any further questions? We're not someone's magical freebie business research panel, committed to answering all questions exactly as asked without seeking further information (or digressing or opinionating, for that matter). |
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