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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Encryption

As an author you're likely to have one of two views about the rights to the content of your eTextbook; either you want to make sure that you're able to fully exploit them and receive due reward for the effort you've put in to create the text, or you feel that making the book available as widely and freely as possible is ample reward for you.

At eTextbookShop, we've ensured that whichever IPR model you choose to use, our software can support you.

By default eTextbookCreator will create eTextbooks which have encrypted content which can only be viewed by students who have downloaded a licence for the book from eTextbookShop. This licence is restricted to the computer for which it was generated, and therefore the book cannot be used, in its entirety, if it is simply copied between students. As an author, you may wish to make a small amount of the book's content visible without a licence, as a 'taster', so that students can share the book, and hopefully thus encourage their peers to also purchase the text. In its default mode, eTextbookCreator, limits this amount of unencrypted content.

eTextbookCreator also has a number of what we term 'Open Content' features, which can be separately purchased, which expand the amount of unencrypted content allowed for each eTextbook. This allows you to to create an eTextbook, or set of course notes, which can be read in entirety without the student purchasing and downloading a licence for the book.

For a full list of eTextbookCreator features, both free and purchasable, please visit the Software page.