![]() ![]() Kindle e-books can be loaned once for a period of fourteen days if the book is enabled for this. ![]() You also are unable to copy all or part of the file (even if only for a backup file) and you are, for the most part, unable to share or lend the book to anyone else. For example, if you buy an e-book on Amazon, its e-book format and DRM limits your ability to access the e-book, making it so you can only open it on a Kindle Reader or Kindle App on another device. In the case of e-books, DRM allows publishers (or perhaps more accurately, e-book distributors like Amazon and Apple) to control on which e-reader you can access a given e-book and prohibits the copying and sharing of the e-book. We’ve all become familiar with this disputed technology that controls how digital content is accessed and used. Publishers, eBook distributors, authors, and readers continue to wage war over the use of digital rights management (DRM). Interesting to foreign market book sales, both Coehlo and Gaiman saw increased sales in Russia after their books were pirated and distributed.īy guest contributor Allison Scott – first posted in July 2013. ![]() This made us want to find out more about the implications DRM has on e-books and its readers, which leads to the broader and much-discussed question of piracy. When we licensed the Dutch rights in Brazilian best-selling novel Palma’s Rice to Signatuur earlier this year, we received a notice indicating that De Arbeiderspers|AW Bruna Publishers, of which Signatuur is an imprint, was going to remove DRM from its e-books and implement a watermark system instead (you can read about the details in this Bookseller article). All e-books published by OR Books, which we represent in France and The Netherlands, are DRM-free. Posted at 18:16h in Articles & Advice, E-books by marleen 0 Comments The implications of DRM use for e-booksĪn increasing number of publishers are abandoning the use of DRM to protect their e-books. ![]()
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