Why I am opposed to DRM

I'm glad to be a new member of this group and happy to weigh in on this
important topic.
 
Two thumbs up for Eric Flint's articles. 
 
How many books have I loaned out over the years? Is this piracy, too?
Maybe. But from Flint's perspective, this is probably a good thing.
After all, if someone enjoys a book I have loaned him, he becomes
familiar with the author and, when browsing a bookstore, may see and
recognize that author's name, increasing the possibility of a new book
sale. The author now sells a book to a reader who otherwise would never
have heard of him. Rather than losing a potential book sale (from the
original book I loaned), the author has gained a book sale.
 
I once wrestled with the idea of encrypting, or locking, the e-books
that we sell. When a person buys one of our writing books, he receives a
PDF file. He could e-mail the file to his 100 closest friends. Have I
lost 100 potential sales? Not really. Those 100 people may never have
heard of us, our services, or our books. They would not have bought the
book anyway, so I haven't lost anything. On the other hand, now 100 new
people now know who we are. Perhaps they will buy a different book.
Perhaps they will need our services. We haven't lost revenue; we
increased it.
 
This is why, ultimately, I am against DRM.

 


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Re: DRM is a bad idea! <>  From: cenedmedia 

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Tue May 19, 2009 4:01 pm (PDT) 



Stan,
Thanks so much to you, and the others, for sharing these resources and
thoughts!
I feel much more clear and less anxious about this issue, and will adopt
a low-key
approach to asking purchasers of my e-book to not make copies. Thanks
again.
Best,
Richard

On May 12, 2009, at 9:55:03 PM, Stan <cherryfinals@
<mailto:cherryfinals%40yahoo.com> yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Stan <cherryfinals@ <mailto:cherryfinals%40yahoo.com> yahoo.com>
Subject: [ebook-community] DRM is a bad idea!
Date: May 12, 2009 9:55:03 PM EDT
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Since Richard brought up the idea of DRM and encrypting things to keep
the evil pirates away from them, I thought it would be a good idea to
let people know that a lot of work has been going on in the major
publishing houses on this. Baen Books started it (long story that you
can read about on their website) and now Tor is getting on the
bandwagon.

Three has been an ongoing series of essays by Eric Flint of Baen Books
on why Digital Rights Management (DRM) is such a bad idea. Rather than
replicate all his words, here are the links to the essays. They are
long, but well worth reading.

A Matter of Principle
http://www.baens- <http://www.baens-universe.com/articles/principle>
universe.com/articles/principle

Copyright
http://www.baens- <http://www.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos2>
universe.com/articles/salvos2

More on Copyright
http://www.baens- <http://www.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos3>
universe.com/articles/salvos3

What is Fair Use
http://www.baens- <http://www.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos4>
universe.com/articles/salvos4

Lies, and More Lies
http://www.baens- <http://www.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos5>
universe.com/articles/salvos5

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
http://www.baens- <http://www.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos6>
universe.com/articles/salvos6

Books: The Opaque Market
http://www.baens- <http://www.baens-universe.com/articles/salvos7>
universe.com/articles/salvos7

The Problem is Legal Scarcity...
http://www.baens-
<http://www.baens-universe.com/articles/The_Problem_is_Legal_Scarcity__n
ot_Illegal_Greed>
universe.com/articles/The_Problem_is_Legal_Scarcity__not_Illegal_Greed

Now I know there is a lot to read there and if you want to thin it down
a bit, focus on numbers 5, 6 and 7. Especially number 7 that deals with
how opaque the ebook market really is.

The fact is that any sort of DRM is dumb. It is totally ineffective in
protecting your author rights and only serves to tick off the people you
really want to help... Your readers. 

Keep in mind that almost all of Eric Flint's novels are available for
FREE on the Baen website and all of them have seen increased sales in
the past five years. If this doesn't make sense to you, then you need to
read the articles listed above. 

Good luck!

Stan

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In case you haven't come across it Bowker has just released 
figures on published titles in 2008
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