Hi Patty,
My personal advice would be to simply not concentrate on "
if" people will copy/distribute your intellectual property. The sad fat is that it
WILL happen! Rather focus your efforts on effectively marketing your product.
I had someone, a customer actually, that copied my
entire website verbatim, and then sold MY product from it. My initial thought was shock and horror. But really, there just ARE people out there that will steal.
When you offer a timed guarantee on a product to help increase credibility,
is it not also stealing when you know a customer has asked for his money back as the product is not what they need, but you know for a fact that they will be using it...? How do you combat that?
Sure you can use applications Digital Vault (which is a great program), or Corel Rudl's eBook Pro, but as already mentioned, these techniques simply hamper your customers ability to read your product.
Focus on making money and forget about losing the odd sales here and there.
I create all of my digital infoproducts in Word and then just convert to PDF. I enable full PDF security (no copy/paste etc) but I do allow for printing. I have not detracted from the experience of reading the product, but have still implemented security measures that do "
help" deter thieves.
One last deterrent you could invest in is Goddady's [url=https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/copyright/landing_choice.asp?isc=&se=%2B&from%5Fapp=&prog%5Fid=GoDaddy&mscssid=2105419]
c-Site copyright protection service[/url]. I now use it on one of my sites simply as a deterrent. (just scroll down to the bottom):
I hope this helps