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alt="" height="27" width="144"></a>With the
holiday shopping season upon us, many people will
be buying e-book readers for themselves or as
gifts. Some <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/business/media/15ereader.html">industry
forecasts</a> predict as many as 10.3 million
e-readers will be in use by the end of the year,
and about 10% of adults report that they plan to
give an e-reader as a gift this season.
Unfortunately, many people who may want to
download e-books from the library onto their
brand-new device are in for a big disappointment.
The digital rights management (DRM) systems used
by libraries and e-readers to prevent unauthorized
copying of e-books are often incompatible—a
situation that could make the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Grinch_Stole_Christmas%21">Grinch</a>
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<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://thesplinteredmind.blogspot.com/2010/10/read-adobe-drm-library-ebooks-on-your.html">Adobe
DRM library eBooks on your Apple iPad</a>
(Splintered Mind/Douglas Cootey) "The problem is
that the most popular library ebook lending
system is Overdrive. They deliver a
double-fisted DRM smack down by wrapping Adobe
DRM in a server side authorization mechanism.
Basically, Overdrive files point to the DRMed
book on Overdrive servers which an Overdrive
authorized reader must be given permission to
access. Since there are no authorized Overdrive
readers for the iPad, and Overdrive has stated
their first mobile ebook support will be for
Android devices, this means that almost 7.5
million iPad owners will have to wait. "</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/50260537-80/kindle-books-library-libraries.html.csp">Kindle
cannot support library books</a> (Salt Lake
Tribune/Vince Horiuchi) "But if I read the fine
print on the library's website, I would have
realized that the PDF books rented out by the
library use DRM, or digital rights management,
to protect the files from being copied.
Unfortunately, the Kindle does not support that
kind of DRM."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.geardiary.com/2010/02/16/the-shattered-ebook-drm-landscape/">The
shattered ebook DRM landscape</a> (Gear
Diary/Carly Z) "When Steve Jobs announced the
iPad, he also mentioned that iBooks would be
using ePUB. There was a brief ray of hope among
the eBook world…maybe, just maybe, the majority
of ebooksellers would rally around a single
format. Unfortunately, it looks like that was a
false hope. ...Apple will be using their
Fairplay DRM for iBooks. This will be the 3rd
variant of ePUB DRM: Adobe, Fairplay, and Barnes
and Noble. And of course, Amazon has their own
DRM and ebook format."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.ebookmagazine.co.uk/second-adobe-drm-ebook-reader-arrives-on-ipad/20101005">Second
Adobe DRM ebook reader arrives on iPad</a>
(ebookmagazine/Martin Hoscik) "Books sold via
Apple's iBooks and Amazon's Kindle apps are
limited by the seller's use of closed DRM and
although rival Kobo offers Adobe protected ePub
books, their app does not currently allow the
'side loading' of titles bought elsewhere."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Shopping
list Fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">So what
should you tell patrons who think ahead and ask
the library what e-reader to buy? Well, if your
library uses Overdrive for e-books, there's an <a
href="http://www.overdrive.com/resources/drc/compatibleebookdevices.aspx">online
list</a> of compatible devices. Adobe also
publishes a more extensive <a
href="http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices">listing</a>
of e-readers that support Adobe Digital Editions
DRM. </div>
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