Comment by worldsavior
3 months ago
Can someone tell me another effective way to combat book piracy that is not Amazon's way?
I don't understand the author complainant. If you don't like the app, don't use it! Pirate it all you want I don't care, but don't say it's because you didn't like the app. You want books? Buy them physically or find another way to obtain them digitally.
There are authors to these books on Kindle, and they don't want their books free on the internet, it's Amazon's jobs to combat this. They have no choice but to DRM.
From my experience, making it easier to buy books would help.
I pay money and I want to get back a PDF, mobi, epub, or whatever. That's the kind of interaction I would appreciate.
If you have to have a certain software or a certain hardware in order to read the book you've paid for, I'm going to look for alternatives.
> If you have to have a certain software or a certain hardware in order to read the book you've paid for, I'm going to look for alternatives.
As you should. It was the author's choice to publish on Kindle, and it's completely his fault.
> Can someone tell me another effective way to combat book piracy that is not Amazon's way?
There simply no effective way to lock a book from copy while being able to read it. It will simply slow the process to free the book, at worst it will result in error or information loss (some links and fancy layout)
> There are authors to these books on Kindle, and they don't want their books free on the internet, it's Amazon's jobs to combat this. They have no choice but to DRM
We, as a civilisation, don't have to respect their wish. Free (as in beer) books are a necessity for a lot of people, and free (as in speak) book should be the norm, DRM introduce plenty of problem fir thé reader, with not a single added value for the customer.
> We, as a civilisation, don't have to respect their wish. Free (as in beer) books are a necessity for a lot of people, and free (as in speak) book should be the norm, DRM introduce plenty of problem fir thé reader, with not a single added value for the customer.
Obviously you don't respect their wish, but Amazon needs to respect their wish.
This argument would be more persuasive to me if publishers and stores didn't screw over authors harder than we ever do by pirating their books.
Then amazon should make it clear you aren’t buying a book. Putting buy there is deceptive.
And also, amazon is on the hook for providing an actual, working app here.
> They have no choice but to DRM.
They do have choice in the DRM they choose and how it's implemented. The DRM should expire when copyright protection expires and the DRM should be standardized so that I could move my books anywhere I want and read them on most readers, just like DVD and Blu-Ray disks.