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Are you locked into a single technology or a group of technologies, or can you choose any device you wish to read and otherwise use your book?.

Is there DRM? If so, how does the DRM limit your use of the book? Can you still lend, give or resell the book? What features are enabled and/or disabled?.

Is it burdened with digital rights management ("DRM")?

Are the copyright or other laws applicable to the books balanced, giving readers the protection of doctrines like fair use or copyright exceptions and limitations?.

My checklist for books free#

Are the books stored in a location where censorship is historically a problem, such as China or Saudi Arabia, or in a place that is relatively free of censorship?.

Is there a single entity that stores all the books, as in Google Books or the Kindle, such that political or legal pressure on that place might result in a loss of the work for all readers?.

How easy is it to remove or edit books once access or possession has been given to readers?.

Can the vendor take it away or edit it after you've purchased it?.

Is it locked down or do you have the freedom to move it to other readers, services or uses?.

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Do you own the book or just rent or license it? Can you control who has access to your additions?.What happens to additions you make to books you buy, like annotations, highlights, commentary? Does it let you or others investigate to confirm that the product, device or service is actually functioning as promised?.How clear are the disclosures? Will they be updated and, if so, how?.Does it tell you what it's doing with the information it collects and can you enforce its commitments to you?.Does it give you control over the information it collects about you?.Does it protect against disclosure of your reading habits?.Does it limit the tracking of you and your reading?.Does it (your e-book reader/service/tool, etc.) protect your privacy?

My checklist for books how to#

That sort of rigorous inquiry will help us decide which digital book future we want - and how to vote with our feet until we get it. Instead, this checklist represents the key questions that readers should ask of each new digital book product or service to evaluate whether it adequately protects their interests. We hope that a robust marketplace emerges, with various business models and technologies. Our goal is not to tell authors, publishers, vendors, libraries, or anyone else what strategies they must adopt, or tell book purchasers what options they must choose.

Yet by separating out the various issues, we hope to spur a more rigorous consideration of the various digital book offerings. For example, Digital Rights Management, or "DRM," matters not only because of the limits it places on users, but because of its impact on innovation and competition. Not surprisingly, some of the issues overlap. Below we offer a checklist that can help guide your inquiry, as well as an extended explanation of why the answers to these questions matter.