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Gretheshus
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October 19, 2019
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Adobe Cloud as a small digital bookstore?

  • October 19, 2019
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I have a small bookstore/Publisher of books. I sell the books on paper in norwegian editions only. I will publish and sell the books in a digital way. I have examined several solutions, among them Kindle. But Amazon grabs 70% of the price for themselves.

How about Adobe Cloud? I need to give my costomers separate passwords. The customers must not be allowded to download the files. The customers have to read the books online only. 

Is this possible?

On beforehand thanks for every answer. 🙂

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    Test Screen Name
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    October 19, 2019

    Anything you publish can be shared and copied unless you use Digital Rights Management, which at least slows people down. This often costs in the tens of thousands of dollars per year, and this is one of the things you pay a publisher for. Writers can choose whether to make the trade-off to uncontrolled distribution. Yes, there are MANY services that let you put a password on a URL, but none of them stop the customers sharing the password. Also, keeping track of a password just for one book, is a real pain in the neck, do you want to inflict this on your customers?

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      GretheshusAuthor
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      October 19, 2019

      Thank you for a swift and informative answer. If  Adobe can provide a realiable and not too expensive solution for my customers, I will go for Adobe. My customers are mostly architects, engineers and students. I make books for the AEC-industry, Building Information Modelling. I think I go for a password to open the PDF, a simple password not to forget... the first name of the customer. I think that will state: «This is yours, do not share,» in a sufficiant way. 🙂

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