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Date: 2011-01-13 04:27 pm (UTC)At first Baen had a couple of authors I liked to read. Then through the Free Library and webscriptions I got to try other authors. Now I'm buying at least 5-6 authors whenever a new books comes out (and the e-ARC if it is offered). [Which is how I started reading you]
Between no DRM, good pricing and easy to use, from everything I've heard it keeps piracy down.
Recently I bought some non-Baen books which was a complete disaster.
I managed to make it work but it took upgrading my ebook firmware, installing additional software and finding a store that could even sell the book to me (I live in Canada).
It would have been easier and quicker to download a torrent than to legally buy the bloody book.
Which I didn't do for two reasons. 1) If I like the book, I want to pay for it so that hopefully more will be made. 2) The quality of pirated ebooks is frequently horrible with bad formatting and OCR.
Which is why I am hoping more publisher/sellers of ebooks will remove DRM.
Since as the music industry has already learned, DRM doesn't stop piracy and if either you don't offer you product or make it too expensive it will be pirated.
And I think the only reason book piracy isn't even more epidemic is that most readers still prefer the printed form and with e-readers and smart devices I believe that will change over the next year.