With the restrictions on eBooks placed by hardware creators and publishers, it was only a matter of time until we would see something like this come about. The "eBook User's Bill of Rights" surfaced this week on the LIS Librarian News website. After a quick search on Google, Sarah Glassmyer filled in a bit of the background on this recent addition to the dissatisfaction with restricted rights on eBooks in her post, "HCOD, eBook User Bill of Rights, and Math". One interesting quote from the Bill of Rights stood out as being very reminiscent of the music debate in the not so distant past.
Digital Rights Management (DRM), like a tariff, acts as a mechanism to inhibit this free exchange of ideas, literature, and information. Likewise, the current licensing arrangements mean that readers never possess ultimate control over their own personal reading material. These are not acceptable conditions for eBooks.Has this held you back from joining the eBook revolution? And do you think this will work?
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