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DRM (digital rights management) is being used in just about every electronic format, including files used in electronic readers. My question is whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for write...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T01:47:37Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/3458 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Steven Drennon
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2019-12-08T01:47:37Z (almost 5 years ago)
DRM (digital rights management) is being used in just about every electronic format, including files used in electronic readers. My question is whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for writers, or does it really matter? Since an author with a "traditional" publishing contract really has no control, this is really targetted more towards self-published authors who are also responsible for doing their own promotion and marketing. I would like to know if not using DRM can result in your work being pirated or will it be a non-issue? If people do end up giving away copies, does DRM have the potential to lead to others buying the work out of guilt or possibly buying one of your other books? From a marketing perspective, does this make good business sense?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2011-07-27T02:40:56Z (over 13 years ago)
Original score: 10