Many Draft2Digital authors who write erotica as their prefered genre has these following questions as a way to help prevent children from viewing erotic ebooks. Well, at the customer side, these computers what they use often have shared subscription accounts with other members of a family. By law, you’re NOT supposed to provide erotic content to minors because its illegal, and it may land you in prison, and register as a sex offender. Authors who write erotica has been placing warning labels on their books, stating this content is for adult audiences only.
Why Erotic ebooks must have mandatory DRM enabled?
Unfortunately, DRM-free erotic books are on digital market shelves. And this is a serious issue for erotic book customers who possess ereaders. Erotic ebooks need DRM because, that adds an additional step to lock down potentially-explicit content,–preventing minors from viewing this content. To me, applying DRM to erotica is kind of like putting a special guard next to an adult-oriented shop where minors are not allowed to enter.
Typically, erotic ebooks don’t belong to public libraries because, erotic books must be placed behind paywalls, and only paying customers to consume erotica. However; I am always careful when writing erotic books. And I am aware of people who got into serious trouble when publishing erotica. Writing a book for an erotic audience requires DRM as a second step for adults to only view content. Well, an adult reader can use ADE (Adobe Digital Editions) to consume DRM-protected content. I am choosing this method of locking away erotic books because, I don’t want minors to view them. Adding a higher price is essential when setting up a stable paying audience via a paid subscription platform like Scribd, and Kobo+.
Mandatory DRM for erotica is necessary because, it isn’t just a safety feature, this is necessary to combat spread of erotic content to other people who don’t want to read erotica.
Why Erotic ebooks should be placed behind paywalls.?
Offering erotic ebooks for free should NOT be a proper strategy when getting erotic readers who want to read erotic books. For this instance, you are a self-publishing company who self-publish erotic ebooks via a subscription platform, and even adding DRM to it. You set a price between $2.99 (a standard amount for erotic ebooks)or 9.99; and you rely on a subscription revenue to keep your business active. However; there’s no dedicated reading platforms with a subscription model for adults only.
Having your erotic books for a subscription platform users is an alternative to one-time purchase of books. You can get readers who read books with reading experience. Also, you can set territories for your erotic ebooks. For this instance; you don’t want to distribute erotic books to Japan, UK, Spain, India, Mexico, and other territories what YOU don’t want to distribute to. This is pretty handy to control territory rights as a way to help minimize NSFW content from other countries.
If licensed subscription libraries are implemented in the first place; erotic books can be distributed there. That will make it difficult for some people to view content without an account. Also, erotic authors can get a piece of mind as they write and publish more erotica.
Think about a cable subscription for TV; adult content must be placed behind paywalls as a safety feature for all cable TV providers. Unfortunately, with a rise of free erotica, this is a serious issue for many of these consumers who are trying to keep erotic content out of reach of other people who don’t consume erotica.
For erotic content to be easily singled out, it must have a mandatory payment prompt.
What You Should Do, If You An Erotic Author?
Follow these steps to help prevent minors from viewing erotic content,–if a school has caused this issue, and help to lock down your erotic ebooks as you publish your next ebook. Taking these steps is necessary to help make it easier for adult audiences consume erotica with a piece of mind.
Apply DRM To Your Erotic Ebooks (recommended for all erotic authors)
If you use Draft2Digital, StreetLib, or any other self-publishing platform, enable DRM for all of your erotic ebooks.
For Draft2Digital Users
Open your browser, and log into your Draft2Digital account.
Find a setting to activate DRM.
Republish your erotic books with DRM enabled.
Give your books some time to be redistributed.
Notify your consumers about your efforts of putting your erotic books behind DRM as a way to lock down your erotic content further.
After your books are redistributed; check if they use Adobe DRM for your erotic ebooks.
Migrate Your Erotic Ebooks To Subscription Platforms
If you use Draft2Digital, follow these steps:
- Delist your book from the following stores, such as: B&N, Apple iBooks; and other vendors that allow one-time purchases of ebooks.
- Activate subscription services, such as : Scribd and Kobo+. You must have Kobo enabled as your vendor.
- Remove library services from your distribution plans for your books.
- Republish your books.
With locking down your erotic ebooks, you can rest easily, and you can easily get adult readers who may read your erotic ebooks.
You may need to confirm if your revenue is bouncing back up. If it does, your customers are your correct customers.
You need to wait for a while… your customers may be able to migrate to a subscription service, if they have enough money to afford it.
The more erotic book customers subscribe, the better. That means; you can rely on subscribers as your consumers.
Set Territories
Set the following territories to keep your erotic content out of these countries, such as: Japan, UK, Mexico, and other countries what YOU don’t want to distribute to. This is necessary to help minimize erotica around the world.