Ebooks are great for generating sales, but they’re also vulnerable to illegal copying by anyone. After all, they are digital files, and it really doesn’t take much to copy something digital. However, to maximize your profits as a product owner, you will need to protect your e-books from losing money due to illegal duplication.
E-book management software/services with security options, protects your product from illegal copies. It will be extremely difficult and virtually impossible to track and control all illegal use of your e-books on the Internet, without the use of security-based e-book management software/service.
There are different levels of protection that you can use on your e-books. Some of these include password protection, copy protection, e-book encryption, disabled screen capture, printing and right-clicking on e-books, and blocked pages.
Password Protection: Your eBook can be protected with a password to allow only people with access to read it.
Copy Protection: You can prevent your e-book text from being copied or edited with this protection. You can also make it impossible for your readers to use more than one copy of your eBook at a time, and restrict your eBook copy per user to a single computer.
Encryption – This allows you to encrypt the content of your eBook, i.e. codes, text and graphics. It renders content unusable for anyone advanced enough to extract your eBook content from its compiled form.
Screen capture, printing and right clicks disabled in ebooks: You can also disable the screenshot when the user is using your ebook, to prevent the user from taking screenshots of your ebook, which can become in text later. You can also disable printing from your eBook and right-clicking on your eBook pages (to prevent your readers from seeing your eBook page source codes).
Locked Pages – This protection allows you to lock any page in your eBook. This is typically used for demo products that you can offer for free, but with limited access, your potential customers will receive full access to the ebook pages when they place an order.
Your ebook compiler may come with some of these security features, but if there is a feature you want and your ebook compiler doesn’t have it, you may need to use other software/service to provide it.
Online services can provide you with online e-book management, security, compilation, and various other management services, just like their desktop management counterpart, so you can choose to use these services for your e-books as well.
You can also use secure delivery for your eBooks. With this service, the URL link for your ebook download is protected in such a way that your targets/clients cannot reuse the link for further downloads, therefore you cannot give a free form to others.
Secure eBooks will help you maximize your earnings and generate more income for you, always use it for your paid products.
