DRM not only limits what a buyer can do with the book they just bought, it also locks them into
a specific eBook vendor.
Not exact matches
But as with the iBooks store, if you commit to buying from one
specific vendor, you're pretty much locked into buying all your
ebooks from that
vendor unless you're willing to go through the necessary trouble to manage your books outside their ecosystems.
Production: Best practices suggest you should use
vendor -
specific hotlinks in your
eBook's back matter to encourage a reader, once finished with your story, to one - click buy your next book.
Moving
ebooks to subsidiary rights is very appealing on many levels, as it would allow individual
vendors to create their own
specific version of the
ebook, price it as they feel appropriate, and pay an advance and royalty to the publisher for that right.
Every hyperlink goes to the product page for the
specific vendor where the
eBook was purchased:
Purchased
ebooks from a
specific vendor will load automatically to any device you later purchase from that same
vendor.