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Question on Beta-Readers
Ren:
Thanks for the info, just wanted to be sure.
The Deposed King:
I'd just make sure you have time and date stamps on your files. Like on your computer. Then if you post on somewhere like here you also have time and date stamps. I've not had a problem yet. The other thing I've heard about is getting an ISBN as soon as you get ready to publish.
I think if you get big this is something you want to do. But I've yet to really get people pirating my stuff. And that's general pirates at large. I can't swear my beta's haven't shared with friends. But I haven't seen any files cropping up on the web.
The Deposed King
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: The Deposed King on July 10, 2013, 02:52:38 AM ---I'd just make sure you have time and date stamps on your files. Like on your computer. Then if you post on somewhere like here you also have time and date stamps.
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It occurs to me I may have been taking something for granted that I shouldn't, here.
The absolute minimum safe number of backup copies to have of something you are working on is three, one of which lives in a different geographical location from the other two. A trusted friend or beta, or a dedicated gmail account for sending things to yourself, will work for that. If you do that sensibly the time and datestamps should happen automatically.
The Deposed King:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on July 10, 2013, 02:36:58 PM ---It occurs to me I may have been taking something for granted that I shouldn't, here.
The absolute minimum safe number of backup copies to have of something you are working on is three, one of which lives in a different geographical location from the other two. A trusted friend or beta, or a dedicated gmail account for sending things to yourself, will work for that. If you do that sensibly the time and datestamps should happen automatically.
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1)Laptop
2)Flash Drive
3)Yahoo E-Mail
That works well for me. I haven't lost anything unreplacable that I am actively working on yet.
The Deposed King
Anei:
Doesn't GMail sell your emails? Not like to anyone worth being annoyed about, but just little advertisers. Or is that only in-line text?
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