RE: Re: eBook security

E-Ink actually makes one method of copying easier. Take your e-ink book and
put it on a scanner bed. Most have enough depth of field they can easily
scan the screen of an E-Ink reader. You can even blow up the Font size for
easier recognition. Flipping the pages is a matter of pushing a button. The
Kindle has the page button nicely beveled so that you don't even have to
lift the reader. Scan and OCR. . . DRM defeated.

The easier they make it for your eye to scan it the easier they make it for
a machine to scan it.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Danny Stone
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ebook-community] Re: eBook security

Yeah, but it's not legal to sell secrets.  :)  Except your own, or those 
of whom you love (assuming they don't object.)  My mother wrote 2 
novels, both of which I'm going to publish.  My brother and I are going 
to fight, I think, but there is little to no reason to keep these 
well-written books a family secret.  He'll try to sue me over it, I 
know, but he'll lose.  Can't explain in open forum why, but he'll have 
the right to publish them TOO.  I'm just gonna make him spend money to 
find that out, because I'm pretty sure he's not gonna spend 30 seconds 
to ask me.  That's him, not his lawyer.  (Siblings - gotta love 'em!)

DRM is a good way to annoy the customer, but it doesn't actually protect 
content, which is why you would use it in the first place.  DRM will 
slow down someone trying to copy the content, but you'd be amazed what 
someone with a word processor (and a lot of patience) can accomplish.  
Okay, so you put your greatest book on one of the new eBook tablet 
computers, and it's got the best copy-protection and DRM in the 
industry.  Congratulations. Will that stop the patient typer with a word 
processor?

That's why we only use DRM and/or copy-protection on sample works or 
licensed works that require it (which thankfully, so far, are few.)  In 
fact, for Abstract Reality Magazine, the entire marketing plan allows 
for copying, as the income is coming from the sponsors, not the 
readers.  We *WANT* them to copy (under a Creative Commons Attributive 
Noncommercial, No-Derivatives license.)  The more they copy, the more 
money we make, because more people will buy from our sites (indirect 
sales.)  In management, sometimes the best solution is to play your 
problems against each other, which is what I did for most of this 
marketing plan.  If the entertainment industry would learn to do this, 
perhaps it would make more money without needing draconian laws to 
accomplish it.

The authors are paid from 40% of gross receipts, which (if all goes 
well) should be a lot more than they would make from traditional 
marketing methods.  And they have the option of upgrading their work to 
a POD version (with our strong suggestion that they add additional 
content to make it worth it to the readers.)  This won't stop anyone 
from copying the new version, of course, but neither would DRM on the 
eBook version for the same reason.

Danny Stone
Publisher/Producer
Wallstone Entertainment


Richard wrote:
>
> As long as you keep it only in your head, it's perfectly safe.
>
> But somehow that isn't very satisfactory.
>
> Rick Brooks
>


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