If they like my free stories, they might read the samples of my paid books, decide that I'm worth reading and buy my books. For the same reason I offer free review copies of my first novel, Reprobate: A Katla Novel , so if someone spots my book and wants to review it anyway, they can read the book for free.
Because the value of a well-written review far outweighs the price of the book I don't work for 3. Instead, the reviewer might get interested in the other books and buy them, and their reviews might bring me new readers. That's called marketing.
If you call that 'idiotic', you clearly have no idea about the difficulties of getting noticed with 40, new books being published every week. Nameless wrote: "I want my story sold on Amazon, and only available on Kindle. I could careless about other ereaders.
OR publishing on Smashwords. The DRM bugs the people who want to steal the story. You might not care about other e-readers, but that means you disregard readers who don't want to read on Kindles.
It's your prerogative, but by offering your work only on Amazon and putting outdated ineffective digital right management software on the ebooks, you're only screwing yourself. And you might want to notice something about my post: I can reply to your insults with a civilized response. You might want to try curbing your outrage and exclamation marks. Your strident posts only show your immaturity and lack of business acumen.
DRM bugs people who actually bought the story. Those who want a pirate copy know how to make one easily, or where to get one easily. Or they're just not interested, and wouldn't buy the book anyway. Martyn V. It's unfair, but my bank account doesn't care about that. I wish my bank account were more understanding. I really do. Alas, this shall not come to pass.
You just don't like being classified as a thief? You call me a thief while I stated that I don't condone piracy. Perhaps you don't know what the word 'condone' means, so I'll put it in simpler terms. I don't like people who steal ebooks and distribute them illegally.
I don't frequent their sites, so, yes, I don't like being classified as a thief. I don't steal. However, I'm aware that I live in a world filled with thieves. That's why I lock my car, my bicycle, my motorcycles, and my house. However, if the only lock available to lock my book only hinders the readers but not the thieves, I prefer not to lock my book. Sure, thieves might copy my book, but at least I won't irritate my readers by putting DRM on my books. Nameless wrote: "No reviews needed if a person writes well enough.
Word will get around. Pray tell me, how? I'm always open to marketing tips. Many of the ebook distribution companies like Smashwords advise its authors not to opt for the DRM feature. However,depending on the type of subjects covered in the book and sales on Amazon, it is in your own interest to opt for the DRM feature, which you can choose at the time of uploading you ebook.
In case the book is not so unique, better not to opt for the DRM option. I think we know by now Nameless. It's an interesting statistic but you reposted the same info three times already. If you really don't want your book to end up on a piracy website, don't publish any e-books, but publish only in print. Nameless, you're coming across as someone who is very thin skinned, which isn't good as an author.
You're going to be criticized and your opinions are going to be challenged and you're going to to need to be able to handle those situations well, which, from what I'm reading, you're not doing. It's okay to have an opinion that you're going to stick to, but to be belligerent about it and not have an open mind to understand where other people opposed to your opinion are coming from, you're not going to get yourself anywhere.
From what I've gathered, from your opinions on DRM and about your readers which seems to be very poor , and your lack of ability to handle a debate without getting angry with others who are against your opinion, you're not an author I want to buy a book from.
You're the type of author readers avoid because they come across as awful people to know and they don't want to support those kinds of authors. As for my opinion of DRM, I use to not have an an opinion either way. I had never had an issue with it when it came to books and I didn't see how it hurt an author.
Course, being a gamer, I should have known better. DRM with games is terrible and causes issue and I should have known just because I wasn't having issues with books I read, others weren't so lucky. I've come to learn DRM really only hurts those who are true readers of an author's work. It punishes them and not any of the pirates because everyone know if a pirate wants something, they're going to do whatever it takes to get it for free.
If you go onto google you'll find it's just that easy to strip DRM off a book. Is stripping DRM right? Well it depends. If you're doing it because you purchased the book and want to have it on another device you own as well, then I can't say it's wrong.
You rightfully purchased the book and should be able to put it on whatever e-reader device you own. If you're doing it because you want to pirated it, distribute it for free, and the works, then obviously that's wrong and it shouldn't be condoned, but it's not all that easy to stop either. If it were easy to stop thieves and eliminate it, then we'd get to the point where we wouldn't know what a thief was.
Is pirating really all that bad? Legally, yeah, it's an issue. If someone is going to go through the trouble of getting your book for free when it has a price tag, then more than likely they were never going to purchase it otherwise. There are some people who pirate then buy if it's worthwhile. I'll admit, I did this in my teen years because I didn't want to waste money on junk.
If it was worth my money I went out and bought it. I also knew people who didn't like to pay for anything. But back to the point, if they're going to pirate it, it's safe to assume they were never going to buy it in the first place so you can't say you were losing money, because they weren't going to buy it anyways.
BUT it's possible they will talk about it to their friends if they like it. If they like it, even if they don't buy it, might tell someone about it and that person might buy it and if they just pirate you're still not losing a sale because they weren't going to buy anyways. So on a business stand point, you don't lose any money, but you can gain readers and a fanbase and that's important for those who want to make writing a job.
The money is great aspect to look at, but you need a fanbase to support you. And in the end, if you're good at what you do, you're going to find more people buy your books than they steal. I made the mistake of putting DRM on my book. Amazon and Nook don't allow you to take it off once it's applied, while Kobo does though their system is a hassle to work with so there's nothing I can do about the Kindle and Nook versions. All future releases I'll be keeping it off because I want to be kind to my real readers.
That's why when my hardcopy comes out this next month I'm opting into kindle's feature that allows them to download the books for free if they purchase the hardcopy through them. Some people will think I'm dumb for making this choice, others won't. I used to think it was good for authors but when I asked around for opinions from readers going in with an open mind I was given information that I could use to fully understand what DRM does to people and ultimately authors and make a concrete decision of a side I'd choose.
Reviewing is, after all, a way of "talking about" it. I don't really care when someone tells me "yo, this book's the bomb-shiggity! You are just being allowed to read it! When I buy a paper copy, I "own" the book.
Not the copyright, of course, not the story itself: I mean the book as an actual item. I can read it wherever and whenever I want. So when I buy an ebook, sure, I'm not going to pass illegal copies around, that'd be just nasty on my part. However, I still paid for it, so I at least want to be allowed to read it on, say, my phone AND my tablet.
My former tablet ran a version of Android on which you couldn't install the Kindle app. Sometimes you just don't want to read on a small Smartphone's screen, is all. If I pay a ludicrous sum for an ebook some sell for almost the same price as a paper copy , I want to "own" it in the way I mentioned above.
And if I can't, well, why should I bother buying it at all? There's the problem. DRM as it is isn't the right solution IMHO, since—again—the ones it really annoys are the honest buyers, not the ones who never planned to pay for their books. Yzabel wrote: "If I pay a ludicrous sum for an ebook some sell for almost the same price as a paper copy , I want to "own" it in the way I mentioned above. That would take care of the horror stories of Amazon remotely wiping libraries. Libraries pay 'royalties' - every time you check out a book of a living writer, the author receives money.
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Group Home Bookshelf Discussions. A Kindle2. I was on reading that forum a lot. More than I even read this one. They terrorized that Amazon forum. I recall the daily lot of posts by them. They scared a lot of new self-publishers. That was well over 10 years ago. Actually considering it was originally provoked by that bunch for certain.
The first few ebooks I had were each aggressively tagged by both of those ebook terrorist groups. For the longest time, Zon did nothing. Then they suddenly removed tagging entirely. Which was actually a relief.
I DRM more out of defiance than anything. And I will never again give away a free book or price at 99 cents again. Just because. Does a non-author, non-publisher reader actually care if a book is under DRM? I doubt they'd even notice. I almost believed you knew what you're your beans, but I guess not.
Obviously, this is the attitude of an outlier, and it's true I run in an anti-systemic circle of free thinking hackers, Is that Newspeak for "criminals" these days? I'm old and cynical and can't keep up with all the changes.
No, I don't think it a good idea to encourage lawlessness; human nature being what it is, your friends would just start up their own pirate sites. They may have already, but why be a willing party? KDP University. English Show menu. Log in. Home Recent Activity. DRM stands for digital rights management.
Basically, DRM provided through a number of software products controls how you can share your ebook from user to user and device to device. Proprietary formats typically have this built in; DRM is what keeps you from being able to share your Kindle purchases with of your friends, for example.
So, if your ideal reader bought an EPUB version of an ebook from some random place online, she could read it on a number of devices including the Apple devices assuming whatever DRM the publisher used had such open permissions. Ebooks in any one of those DRM systems are incompatible with the others. My advice is to forget the DRM when you have the option to forgo it.
The more I read about DRM, the clearer it is that the cons outweigh the pros for most self-publishers. DRM software suites are also notoriously buggy and, if the multitude of blog posts, forums, and other anecdotal evidence online are to be believed, are responsible for an awful lot some claim the majority of customer service calls made to device manufacturers and ebook sellers.
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