The New York Times “Arts Beat” has a post about bestselling author John Grisham getting over his fear of eBook pirates and diving into the eBook Revolution with his publisher Random House’s announcement that they will release his 23 backlist titles, including his recent short story collection Ford County, as eBooks. According to Random House, Grisham’s books have sold 250 million copies worldwide. Read the full article here.
Avoiding piracy is simple: Use an open format (EPUB). Charge a reasonable price and don’t use restrictive DRM.
This will be interesting to watch, yah?