DRM? Because when I published it (my first book) it seemed the thing to do. Also, I'd been reading a lot about book piracy - and you can find the book (or at least the cover) on some sites. Though why someone would use those sites is beyond me... but there you go.
actually, i don't know anyone (i come from the super-nerd community) who goes to websites to download books. that's crazy.
the best place for pirated books? irc.
not to scare you, but gimme a second, lemme look.
$: @search stone road forbidden list
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!pondering G R Matthews - [Forbidden List 01] - The Stone Road (epub).rar ::INFO:: 300.4KB
!pondering G R Matthews - [Forbidden List 01] - The Stone Road (epub).rar ::INFO:: 300.4KB
!Ook G R Matthews - [Forbidden List 01] - The Stone Road (epub).rar ::INFO:: 300.4KB
yup. there it is.
every book from every author ever is available for download for free.
worrying about drm or pirating or any of that? totally a waste of time. spend your time showing love to your fans and giving them what they want.
they'll reward you by buying your book and doing awesome book club readings with it!
I don't make a lot from the book(s), but I know it cost to publish it. There is a Kindle app on the phone (no idea if it reads it out to you though).
it does, but omg is it terrible. my favorite is when you can add on the whispersync audiobook stuff for a few dollars more. that's the best!
with the stuff i've written, amy reads to me:
https://www.ivona.com/us/about-us/voice-portfolio/My brother is a music producer/engineer/performer and I am very aware how tough it is for musicians to make a living from their art... performing for free whilst the bar owner makes money from drink sales, having albums/songs 'ripped' onto youtube (and then 'ripped' off youtube on mp3 players)... an artist deserves to be paid for their hard work (and all the years of work and dedication before hand to get good enough to be listened to/read) and it seems that, to me, not appyling DRM (or anything protection) to the work/music is wrong.
here, we actually disagree. musicians do not
deserve to be paid for their hard work. totally sounds harsh, but lemme explain.
1) the purchasing of music recordings is an aberration of the last 60 years. musicians have existed for centuries upon centuries before that -- all without the benefit of recording. they earned their money the old fashioned way -- they performed.
2) if i spend $100 million dollars, work for decades, and perfect a way to cultivate and bottle the most realistic boogers ever created -- when no one buys them, i can't cry and say "but i spent all that time and effort and money! i deserve to be paid!"
3) no one
deserves to be compensated for work they do. even in your everyday job -- you don't deserve to be paid. you are paid based on a contract that you will do the work someone wants from you. if you work on something your boss doesn't want, you will probably be fired. just because you do it, doesn't mean someone will pay you for it. they have to _want_ what you produce.
I do buy DRM free games from GOG... but I buy most from Steam. If I was already rich and famous I could, like Radiohead, do a pay what you want album(book, in my case).
i will point you to masnick's law on this one:
"in any conversation about musicians doing something different to achieve fame and/or fortune someone will inevitably attempt to make the argument that 'it only worked for them because they are big/small and it will never work for someone who is the opposite,' no matter how much evidence to the contrary might be readily available."
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080620/1132211463.shtmlMore than that, honestly, folks spending 1.99 on a book isn't that much (I just bough Jason M Hough's Darwin Elevator in Waterstones for 7.99) and once they've done that, if they have their own requirements for reading/listening, they will find a way - I know that. I also hope, one day, I'll have enough 'profit' to have audiobook versions (esp of Silent City).
yup, totally. me? i'm lazy. it's sooooooo much easier to just buy a kindle book than to hunt for, deal with potential quality issues, etc for a pirated book. i don't enjoy, nor have time to do that.
unless, for some dumb reason, the publisher chooses to price a book i want at some stupid price north of $9.99 or whatever. that moment, it becomes a matter of principle and sticking it to the publisher for their stupid decision-making.
DRM isn't going to stop people 'pirating' the book/album/game/software - I'm realist enough to know that, but it makes a little more of a challenge and deliberate act.
it's only a challenge once. and only to someone who has fun crushing those kinds of challenges. in the digital world, everyone following up has the same exact pirated access to protected content as they do to non-protected content.
And you're the first I've heard of who puts books into some other software to have it read out to them 
yay! i like being first!
tho, i suspect i'm less of an edge case than you imagine. my guess is that my fellow nerds do lots of bizarre things with ebooks. from
not trusting amazon to revoke your purchase to an obsessive-compulsive need to have all their files organized and in the same format to all manner of strangeness in between.
i mean, "calibre ebook" has almost 800k results on google:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=calibre+ebookOther than that, if folks want an ePub version (or Pdf) then I am always happy to oblige, and do so.
i LOVE this. /highfive
building relationships with your fans is
crucial.
I just click DRM by habit (though I think I forgot to on book 2).
i suspected as much. i was just curious if you were a staunch drm guy. it really sounds like you're not. like it's just a 'take it or leave it' thing to you. word.
thanks for taking the time to answer my question!