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PDF SECURITY FOR SMALL PUBLISHERS
Safeguard PDF Security can provide many benefits to small publishers including:
 Protecting ebooks and articles
Complying with copyright law
Simple to use protection system
Up and running straight away
A small publisher is someone who is selling something as an individual item or a series of separate items. These might include ebooks, magazine articles, expert analyses, or similar.
The essential point is that the products are not sold as subscriptions where your customers are buying into regular deliveries of a report, a newspaper or magazine. If that better describes your business please see PDF Security for Large Publishers.
Managing Documents and Customers
When managing one-off items you should always consider them to be single documents. Most likely you will not have a need to create publications as it will only add to your administration without giving any benefits.
Protect ebooks. If you sell ebooks, then likely you and your customer will expect that they can read it from now on. Your customer is not going to expect to suddenly not be able to read the documents they have purchased. So most of the time you are just going to license a customer to read your information forever. You can then vary the document controls if you want to give individual customers something different – a short document access period if you want to give them a 'taster' before they buy, perhaps. You can later sell them the document with no expiry date so that they can make full use of it.
Although there are features in LockLizard that allow you to suspend customers it's not likely that you will need to use them.
You can also license a customer to have more than one copy of the document to read, so maybe you give them two licenses so they can load the document onto two PCs in order to use it (i.e. home and work computer).
Copyright Law
Copyright law, as it stands today, allows you control of your work for between 50 and 120 years after your death (good for the family even if you don’ t personally benefit). But people who buy a physical book expect to be able to read it at any time in the future, just the same as if you have bought a painting you expect to be able to see it when it suits you. So it's good practice not to try setting different rules unless there are very good reasons.
Hosting of the Administration system
If you are a small publisher then it your best choice is to use the LockLizard hosted administration system for the licensing of your customers. You can be up and running straight away and don't have the responsibility of looking after your own server.
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