>(I was also wrong about scanning and OCRing being the main way of pirating books – turns out it was people cracking the DRM of eBooks that publishers had helpf

>(I was also wrong about scanning and OCRing being the main way of pirating books – turns out it was people cracking the DRM of eBooks that publishers had helpfully formatted and distributed themselves!) interesting. I wonder how much worse you make the pirated copy if you release your book on paper only? But that's a losing proposition for authors, as we get a much higher percentage of the e-book sale than of the physical book sale. I think more than half my last royalty cheque was from ebook sales even though physical book sales dwarf e-book sales in my case (and at this point, the publisher is giving away the e-book when you buy the published book direct.)