You have spent several months composing your new e-book. Now that the same is complete you check the same carefully for the last time for any typos that you might have missed. After some time you load the document in the PDF converter software and click the button to convert your document into PDF format. In a few minutes your e-book is ready to be uploaded on the web and bring you the riches you have been dreaming of for the past few months.
Two days prior to this you had also edited the sales page of your website but had not linked it to the index page. After uploading the e-book to a reliable server you link up the sales page of your website to the index page. You have already entered into a tie-up with a mass mailing company to send out thousands of emails carrying details of your e-book. It seems that you have done every thing correctly and very soon you will be rolling in riches, right?
Well there is one important stage that you did not perform. Did you copy-protect your e-book? Your e-book might contain secrets that can actually help others earn millions but you can be rest assured that your profits will be stolen within a few minutes of your e-book being uploaded on the net. Remember the emails that you have sent out to thousands of people? Chances are that one or several of them are either hackers or pirates.
They are waiting patiently for you to upload your famous e-book. Within minutes of your uploading the same, they will pay money and download a copy of the same. In all probabilities even the credit card used by them to pay for the book is phished and belongs to someone else. If your e-book has not been secured against copying by using special software, it will be a matter of minutes before illegal copies of your publication will be available all over the net for free download.
Can you imagine the financial losses it might have caused you by way of losses in sales? People think twice and then drop the idea of purchasing a decent copy protection software just because it costs too much. Just think of the money that you stand to loose? The earnings from 100 copies of your e-book might well have paid off for the reputed software.
Just think of the thousands of copies of your e-book that is being downloaded every day. People do not download just for the heck of it. Your e-book had the potential to become an all-time great. When you sit down to write the sequel, do not forget to purchase a reputed copy protection software.
Most people do not know the values of copy protection software. Protect pdf files by using electronic document retention.