Re: PDF Security

--- In [email protected], "townleykevyn" 
<townleykevyn@...> wrote:
>
> In creating my ebook in Adobe PDF format can I secure it so that the 
> file can not be copied and pasted? Also can I prohibit the emailing 
of 
> the document?
...
> 
> Whilst I am willing to accept the printing piracy of the ebook, I see 
> that as a marginal 'cost'. It is the electronic copying/distribution 
> that remains a concern.


Ebooks are typically pirated by copying the entire file and 
distributing it.  And there is not much you can do to stop an ebook 
from acting like a file at this level, being duplicatible, emailable 
etc.

I would suggest not being to heavy with the DRM.  As a reader and 
reviewer I want to have ebooks where the text can be manipulated so I 
can, for example, change the font, do a word count, search for phrases, 
and cut out a short excerpt to put it in my review. 

Files with passwords and disabled functions general annoy me as a 
customer.  As an author I just assert my copyright whenever trouble 
comes up.  Most filesharing sites respond to a cease and desist email.




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