On 30/09/2011 15:09, Rainer Duffner wrote:
Am Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:24:58 +0200
schrieb David Brown<[email protected]>:
The thought had occurred to me, but I didn't like to mention it :-)
For obvious reasons.
I do own the paper version (and only the paper version), just for the
record.
;-)
And I do know that book-piracy is a big problem especially for books
with a small circulation.
The media like to concentrate on movies and songs.
But the real victims are authors and publishers of non-blockbuster
books.
Yes - it's easy for the media (and idiots like the BSA) to talk about
popular media and software, since that gives them huge figures,
especially by making the assumption that everyone who downloaded an
unauthorised copy of something would otherwise have bought it at full
price. But for a specialised book like this, unauthorised copies can
make a much bigger proportional difference to the authors. Part of this
is that it is more realistic to assume that a higher proportion of
downloaded copies really are lost sales - people would only bother
getting hold of a copy of the PfSense book if they actually needed it,
unlike a song, movie or computer game.
The challenge for Chris is to find a way to let honest users pay
suitably for a pdf that they can use freely (no Kindle nonsense or other
DRM locks), while discouraging the accidental or intentional spread of
the file. Watermarking with the purchaser's name and company is one way
to achieve this, at least amongst professional users. Maybe if the
watermark included the purchasers credit card number, people would be
careful about sharing the file!
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