If there is then there is also a way to hack it and either remove or fake it.
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This is essentially what encryption is. The thing about any signal like a watermark is that if the publisher can detect it to read it, someone on the side opposing the publishers can detect it to remove it. The secret you're trying to protect is, in the end, just text.
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Short answer: sort of. You can do it, but it's difficult (actually technically impossible) to prevent pirates from stripping it out if they want to.
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You can put it in there and hope the pirates don't *notice*, but once people catch on it's hard to hide that sort of thing.
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I have read about authors giving away slightly different versions of ARCs so if they see it on pirate sites they can tell who the culprit is
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Basically this: a canary trap, where the key indicator is a CONTENT CHANGE indistinguishable to the reader from the rest of the text, is basically the only way, and involves putting out different versions of the book.
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I worked for years w/ a distributor who tried both hard DRM and watermarking for both ebooks & audio. Neither deterred pirates, but watermarking at least didnt force legal customers to break DRM to read books. You can't stop determined pirates. BUT...
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...simple user solutions remove a lot of incentive to break DRM. Walled gardens and subscription services like Kindle, Storytel, etc where most customers never even see the file are superior... until you change suppliers and wonder where all yr books went.
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As a ARC reader of an author who has suffered piracy, the author has embedded unique info/codes and gone after those who have done the wrong thing
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