Digital Rights Management (DRM) is one area of publishing and the eBook business that should be of particular interest to any author who wishes to protect their written work when using digital formats.
DRM is a field of software and hardware technology that attempts to protect creative works in multiple formats (C.D.s, D.V.D.s, eBooks, etc.). DRM tries to block eBooks being shared or copied without your knowledge. Famously, music publishers were slow to protect their songs from online copying (e.g. from Napster) without the publishers benefiting financially.
In the eBook business, intellectual asset management was built in from the onset as eBooks are a product of the software industry rather than having grown out of regular book publishing sector. As a result, eBooks have used innovation from an early stage to protect the intellectual property within eBooks.
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