Publishing a book as a pdf

Good morrow,  I have a book that I want to be able to publish but in a way that the purchaser cannot copy or print it.  How can I do this without giving them a password to open it?

There is no way of preventing a purchaser from physically copying the file, so forget about that.
You can protect a PDF file against printing without the need for the purchaser entering a password. In Acrobat, go to Document Properties and go to the Security tab to set restrictions. You will need to password protect the document against anyone changing the restrictions, but not for opening the file.
             - Dov

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