THE Group for Authors! discussion

Baen, perhaps the biggest publisher of scifi/fantasy (and certainly the best such publisher, in my never humble opinion) publishes all its books without DRM. If it's good enough for Baen, it's good enough for me, and my books are without DRM.

I have some 4000 ebooks at AMZ and just ran into a DRM issue for the first time. An excellent self-published author, and a book I tried to download to a new device. AMZ told me if I wanted to read the book on that device I'd have to buy a new copy, and if I had questions, talk to the author.

I sent a very polite email to the author asking why and what could be done, but she didn't bother replying.

Bottom line: no DRM.

Eric-whose-opinion-is-never-humble

Tim wrote: "DRM offers protection."

No it doesn't. It literally takes less than 10 seconds to strip DRM from a file. It offers zero protection.

All DRM does is annoy legitimate readers who want to sideload to a different device. Years ago you couldn't buy kindles where I live, so I have a Kobo ereader and I would transfer over the books I bought from Amazon (and I'm not the only reader who does that). I know readers who won't buy books with DRM enabled because they want to load to another device. Whereas those who are going to pirate, aren't bothered at all by DRM because its so easy to remove.

I'm with AW on this one.

No DRM.