DRM or Not for Amazon

Do you automatically ass Digital Rights Management to your eBooks (like I do)? A writer for Lit World Interviews suggests you might want to rethink that policy.

I wouldn’t repost this if I didn’t think there were some issues to consider.

Lit World Interviews

When you load your book up to Amazon you will get to choose whether or not to enable Digital Rights Management.

It is important to note here that this particular choice cannot be undone. Short of unpublishing and republishing this cannot be changed. 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. So, what is DRM?

Amazon says that Digital Rights Management “is intended to inhibit unauthorized access to or copying of digital content files”. 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. My African Me & Satellite TV was published with DRM enabled and it is my most pirated book. Stripping DRM is…

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