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Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> writes:
> Makes one not want to be an author because it's so easy to steal ones
> hard work.

That's silly, books have never been copy restricted through most of
history and people keep buying them.  Or to the extent that they've
slowed down, it hasn't been because of unauthorized copying in any
meaningful way.

FWIW, I'm willing to pay a reasonable amount (i.e. more than the
restricted version costs, let's say $10 USD) for an unrestricted pdf or
epub of "Footsteps in an Empty Valley" so I can read it with Calibre on
my Linux laptop.  If Juergen is ok with that, I'll send the money
wherever he says to send it.  Otherwise, I don't know how it all
balances out, but this would be a definite (maybe isolated) instance of
the author losing revenue because of the DRM.