: Re: How to prevent ebook piracy from stealing your livelihood? I'm a part-time writer, still working on my novel (with a long term goal to make a living as a writer). My partner is also a writer,

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If you want people to be honest, make it easy for them to do so.

Eighteen years ago, there was a hugely popular computer program called "Napster". It let people share their music collections with each other in violation of all sorts of copyright laws. The music publishers were up in arms over this, and filed hundreds of thousands of lawsuits against individual users, software developers, and the occasional ISP. Yet, no matter what the industry did, Napster and similar file-sharing programs grew in popularity.

These days, you almost never hear about music sharing. You know what killed it? A little program called "iTunes". Instead of downloading a file of uncertain contents and unknown quality from a sharing service, people could go to a central location and easily find and purchase exactly what they wanted.

Don't waste your time attacking the pirates head-on, the way the music industry did. Instead, do what Apple did and focus on making your ebooks easy to purchase and easy to use.

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