: 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,

Is there a practical, effective way to prevent this IP theft?

Yes.

As someone who has pirated countless books, I might give you some insight into my frame of mind. There's a very simple way you can counteract this "theft":

Put a donation link on your website.

You'd be surprised if I told you how many times I wanted to donate to an author after reading their book but couldn't because they didn't take the simple step of enabling it.

Prefer a easy to use payment method - paypal and bitcoin are good candidates. You don't have to phrase it as "paying for pirating". "Supporting my writing" would be appropriate.

As a reader, here's things I care about, in order of importance:

I want to read your book
I want to finance your future books (so I can read them as well)
I want to get a sense of contributing to the development of culture and society

Here's some things I don't want:

complicated DRM schemes that at best make my e-reader slow, or at worse, don't work with my model at all, or make me unable to read on my computer.
lose access to my book when I migrate to another book publisher service, e-reader or computer.
I don't care about exclusivity agreements. I won't create a new account in a new publisher again just because your book is there.
I don't care about middlemen like amazon profiting at your and mine expense in an age where data distribution is virtually free.
I don't care about the price of your e-book being virtually identical to the price of a paper copy. No matter what the actual production costs are, I feel I'm getting ripped off.

Finally, please consider subscribing to a crowdsourcing/patron platform like Patreon. Or letting donators leave a message. The only thing better than supporting authors you love is doing it publicly.

Summary:

I want to read your book in whatever way I see fit. Please just make it easy for me and take my money.

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