Re: read & print, but not copy?

On 5/11/09, cenedmedia <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am new to ebook publishing. Is there any software which allows people to read and to print a book, but not
>  to be able to download the file for the book? I know pdf files have security options, but am not aware that
>  you can prevent people from copying and sending the pdf files.
>  Richard Panzer

If you can print, you can "print to PDF," and create a digital copy.

There are ways of setting up online readability without copyability,
usually based on Flash. (Most of them can be circumvented with enough
creative code skills, but the vast majority of people won't bother.)

-- 
"I follow Eris blindly in all things. That She is the Goddess of Chaos
simplifies this immensely."  -- Christian the Pagan


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