Sentences with phrase «drm ebook licenses»

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You can now apply DRM to your eBook, and sell a licensed version which can't be freely copied and distributed.

The problem with the ebook licenses is they try to impose additional restrictions on the reader (usually via DRM) that go way beyond those imposed by the normal copyright law that applies to print books.

Buying ebooks with DRM, high prices, and licenses that much be renewed is only part of the problem.

He admits that they may not be able to add support for reading DRM - encrypted ebooks, since «Neither Apple nor Amazon will license their DRM systems, and while Adobe will license Adobe Digital Editions, it's a six - figure cost...».

All of the major publishers integrate DRM into their eBooks, but smaller publishers who can not afford to invest tens of thousands of dollars in licensing fees have been unable to offer the same security to authors.

Additionally, the following data is provided by the publisher as part of the actual license and DRM for the ebook:

Houghton also sounded a forceful call for librarians take a stand against ebooks locked up in restrictive DRM or licensed under unfavorable terms, saying that if these issues aren't fixed by the time a contract is up, her library will simply refuse to renew.

«Adobe uses the information collected about the eBook you have opened in Adobe Digital Editions software to ensure it is being viewed in accordance with the type of DRM license that accompanies that eBook.

However, please note that in many cases the license will additionally require that the eBook be encrypted with Digital Rights Management (DRM) of some kind to make the extraction and illegal use of the font file more difficult.

About the DRM - free part: I bought Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on Pottermore Shop yesterday and here's what I found: sending the book to my Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com accounts was fairly simple — and I was quickly able to read the book on my Kindle Fire, first - gen Nook 3G, and the Nook app on my Android phone. However, when I downloaded the epub file to my PC I found I couldn't read it using either the free Calibre ereader software (which told me «This file is locked by DRM») or Adobe Digital Editions, which Pottermore Shop actually recommends for reading its Harry Potter ebooks. When I attempted to read the ebook in Adobe Digital Editions I got a pop - up box telling me «Document is licensed for a different user account».

Well this is in fact what you get when you sell DRM'd ebooks or DRM'd music — in order to play back that DRM format, in order carry, manipulate or convert that DRM format, you have to license the DRM.

All the major retailers of ebooks either have their own DRM or license it from Adobe: Google (own and Adobe), Apple (own), Kindle (own), Mobipocket (own and different from Kindle), Nook (own), Waterstones, Gardners etc. (ACS4).

We have implemented some of these in Books4Spain (exclusively online and specialising in books about Spain)-- both on the website and on our blog, for example: independent «expert» reviews author interviews and links to them and author blog from book result page on our website ability to but non DRM ebooks and Kindle books direct Win books competitions Lots of added value content on blog Our favourites, special offers, recommended books, popular books and featured authors on website All this via a software platform which we have developed in - house and re Hildick - Smith warning that entering digital book retail is very, very expensive — that is not necessarily the case since we intend to license our software platform on a white label ASP basis to other independents (retailers and publishers) at a very reasonable price.

Licensing varies but generally online books are rented while eBooks are «owned» (subject to DRM and other licensing restrictions — for example, eBooks can not be transferred after the initial sale, unlike prinLicensing varies but generally online books are rented while eBooks are «owned» (subject to DRM and other licensing restrictions — for example, eBooks can not be transferred after the initial sale, unlike prinlicensing restrictions — for example, eBooks can not be transferred after the initial sale, unlike print books.)