#WHAT IS DRM ON KINDLE PDF#
On your copyright page you will state what is not allowed to happen with copies of your eBook purchased, but regardless of that it is very easy to convert any non-DRM book to PDF form and print it out for whatever your reader chooses to do with it. With certain eBooks authors encourage the printing of them, such as for workbooks or colouring books, and supply links away from the book to download PDF copies for this purpose. If you also publish with a distributor such as Smashwords DRM becomes irrelevant anyway as far as protection against piracy is concerned because they supply every form of digital copy of your book to anyone who purchases a copy of it.
#WHAT IS DRM ON KINDLE SOFTWARE#
While a DRM enabled book can be read on any Kindle device or on the Kindle App when loaded on to any reading device, it can’t be opened without it (crooked software notwithstanding). In all honesty DRM is more of a headache and deterrent to potential readers. Stripping DRM is the work of minutes with appropriate easy to obtain software and a penchant for theft. My African Me & Satellite TV was published with DRM enabled and it is my most pirated book. While this sounds great in terms of combating piracy, in reality it’s about as effective in this regard as a straw hut would be at keeping you dry in a hurricane. So, what is DRM?Īmazon says that Digital Rights Management “is intended to inhibit unauthorized access to or copying of digital content files”. Once you have some nice reviews and lots of sales on any particular book unpublishing it is not a great idea, so give some thought to this before setting it in stone. Short of unpublishing and republishing this cannot be changed.
It is important to note here that this particular choice cannot be undone. When you load your book up to Amazon you will get to choose whether or not to enable Digital Rights Management.
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