Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers
Fuente:
ERIC Institute of Education Sciences
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
| Published: |
2010
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| _version_ | 1867181750804807680 |
|---|---|
| author | McSherry, Corynne Cohn, Cindy |
| author_facet | McSherry, Corynne Cohn, Cindy McSherry, Corynne Cohn, Cindy |
| collection | Education Resources Information Center |
| contents | Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers McSherry, Corynne Cohn, Cindy Check Lists Data Collection Electronic Libraries Books Electronic Publishing Privacy Censorship Access to Information Competition Innovation Copyrights Ownership Library Services Cost Effectiveness Disabilities After several years of false starts, the universe of digital books seems at last poised to expand dramatically. Readers should view this expansion with both excitement and wariness. Excitement because digital books could revolutionize reading, making more books more findable and more accessible to more people in more ways than ever before. Wariness because the various entities that will help make this digital book revolution possible may not always respect the rights and expectations that readers, authors, booksellers and librarians built up, and defended, over generations of experience with physical books. As new digital book tools and services roll out, readers need to be able to evaluate not only the cool features they offer, but also whether they extend (or hamper) one's rights and expectations. This paper provides a checklist that can help guide a reader's inquiry, as well as an extended explanation of why the answers to these questions matter. (Contains 26 endnotes.) |
| format | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| id | eric_ED509861 |
| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2010 |
| record_format | eric |
| spellingShingle | Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers McSherry, Corynne Cohn, Cindy Check Lists Data Collection Electronic Libraries Books Electronic Publishing Privacy Censorship Access to Information Competition Innovation Copyrights Ownership Library Services Cost Effectiveness Disabilities Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers McSherry, Corynne Cohn, Cindy Check Lists Data Collection Electronic Libraries Books Electronic Publishing Privacy Censorship Access to Information Competition Innovation Copyrights Ownership Library Services Cost Effectiveness Disabilities After several years of false starts, the universe of digital books seems at last poised to expand dramatically. Readers should view this expansion with both excitement and wariness. Excitement because digital books could revolutionize reading, making more books more findable and more accessible to more people in more ways than ever before. Wariness because the various entities that will help make this digital book revolution possible may not always respect the rights and expectations that readers, authors, booksellers and librarians built up, and defended, over generations of experience with physical books. As new digital book tools and services roll out, readers need to be able to evaluate not only the cool features they offer, but also whether they extend (or hamper) one's rights and expectations. This paper provides a checklist that can help guide a reader's inquiry, as well as an extended explanation of why the answers to these questions matter. (Contains 26 endnotes.) |
| title | Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers |
| topic | Check Lists Data Collection Electronic Libraries Books Electronic Publishing Privacy Censorship Access to Information Competition Innovation Copyrights Ownership Library Services Cost Effectiveness Disabilities |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED509861 |