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For publishers

Should we sell your ebooks without DRM?

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That’s a question that elicits, from most trade publishers and textbook publishers, a simple, monosyllabic, unambiguous, negative response. But this isn’t true of all book publishers. At Frankfurt Book Fair this month we asked many of the publishers we met with for their thoughts on DRM-free, and a surprising number were happy with the idea. We already offer thousands of ebooks from global publishers without DRM. Their ebooks are sold in simple, un-encrypted epub or PDF formats. Our un-encrypted ebooks are mostly in specific subject categories, like: Scholarly Scientific, Technical, Medical Computing Science fiction Fantasy DRM-free…

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Sales jumped 54% when this publisher went DRM-free

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Unlocking your ebooks can deliver unexpected benefits In 2019 we asked a major STM publisher if we might sell their ebooks DRM-free from eBooks.com. They were already selling unencrypted (watermarked) ebooks from their own website direct to consumers, so clearly they had a reasonable appetite for this. The results were remarkable. In 2018 (the last full year when we sold their ebooks with encryption) this publisher accounted for 1.35% of our total sales. In the year to June 2022, they represent 2.09% of our sales. That’s a 54% increase So I’m…

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Factoid: 54% of ebooks have no territorial sales restrictions

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Managing territorial sales restrictions is a complex, important business. Trade publishers in particular are very concerned that vendors like eBooks.com adhere strictly to the rules they set. Matthew Dunlop, who is currently leading a complete re-build of the eBooks.com website, took time out to optimise some aspects of our file ingestion system and emerged with these gems: Of the 1.4 million titles in our database, 54 per cent are allowed to be sold anywhere in the world. Of the remaining 46 per cent, there are only 11,495 permutations of territorial…

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