How Do I Keep Students from Sharing My Ebook?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today's question comes from Naureen, who asks about selling ebooks. What is to stop people from sharing your book after they download it? In this episode, I mention Gumroad's PDF stamping (http://blog.gumroad.com/post/40614820182/introducing-pdf-stamping). Share your experience on Twitter using #AskPat664. Do you have a question about ebooks? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to our sponsor, Design Crowd. To learn more about working with their designers, go to http://designcrowd.com/askpat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
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0:11.0	What's up everybody?
0:11.9	Patflin here and welcome to episode 664 of AskPath.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.5	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.2	We have a great question today from Noreen. But before we get to her question, I do want to think
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0:57.2	All right, now here's today's question from Noreen.
0:59.9	Hi, Pat.
1:00.8	My name is Noreen, and my question is regarding the e-book.
1:04.9	Like the e-book you created for students wanting to pass the lead exam.
1:09.5	Yeah, I think it's a great idea, and I'm looking to go down that road, but I have one nagging question,
1:16.4	and that is, how can you keep people coming into your site and buying the book when one student
1:23.2	can purchase the book and just distribute it among their friends, especially if it's, you know,
1:27.7	an e-book in a PDF format. How do you keep students coming in and purchasing their book on their
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