Chapter 17. Lending and Borrowing Books with LendMe on Your NOOK Simple Touch
To keep readers from sharing ebooks with all their friends, publishers usually protect ebooks with digital rights management (DRM), which ties an ebook to an individual. Unless that individual can prove that he is an authorized reader, the ebook does not open.
DRM is one of the reasons some people don’t like ebooks. After all, when readers find a good read, they like to pass it on to friends and family. The number of people with whom you can share a physical book is fairly limited, but because ebooks are digital copies of a book, they can literally be shared with millions of people quite easily via email, Facebook, and any number of other methods.
One of the unique ...
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