: 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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As a blog author and publisher and open source programmer, I feel even more exposed to "IP theft".

But "IP theft" does not exist for me when I write or publish program source codes, even though I earn good money with those.

Why? I ditched that frightening term from my vocabulary. It does not contribute to anything, quite the opposite in fact. If carry fright, anger or anxiety in you, without having the ability to change it, it just takes away creative or entrepreunerial potential and ruins your evening, irreversibly.

How so? Because no practical way to prevent "IP theft" exists, given analog holes. My scanner has no problem scanning from my Kindle device and sending the scan through an OCR program. Even more comfortable and a lot faster: If available, I order your book on dead tree, cut off the binding, and put the pile of sheets into a multi sheet scanner. After a maximum of a few hours, I have "pirated" your book.

The only method I know (and believe in) to minimize the negative effects of content piracy is to maximize the reader's satisfaction.

I lied. Actually there is a way to prevent "theft": Create something that is uninteresting, unhelpful, boring, and that never gets traction.

Also, my consumer persona want to add this: If I have the choice between two equally great books, I choose the one which restricts me less.

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