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In addition to protecting your intellectual rights, as an author, you also want to protect your right to royalties and you want your users to be able to perform tasks like loan the book to their friends so they can preview your book and then buy their own copy. These goals are accomplished through the application of Digital Rights Management technology to electronic books.
“As piracy makes the cost of information fall toward zero, its obtainability becomes inversely proportional to its value. Infinite access = infinite mess.” Charles C. Mann, 2000
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Henke, H. (2001). Protecting Content in a Digital Age. In: Electronic Books and ePublishing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0317-2_6
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