1. The Rights of Readers and the Threat of the Kindle Matthew Goins Independent Technologist Alycia Sellie Brooklyn College Library ACRL Annual 2011 Our ACRL hashtag: #readersrights

3. “Freedom to Read Statement” by the American Library Association

4. The Free Software Movement

5. The “Five Laws of Library Science” by S.R. Ranganathan

6. The Free Culture Movement

7. Open Access Publishing

9. Electronic Books: The Latest Book Technology

11. No physical object that takes up space

12. Full text can easily be searched/analyzed/edited

13. An item won’t be misplaced, stolen or vandalized

14. An ebook reading device can contain an entire library of materials

16. Aesthetic issues

17. Page Numbers

18. “Lendling” or short-term sharing between personal collections (via DRM)ONGOING PERFORMANCE BY RACHEL MORRISON: SMELLING THE BOOKS

20. Examining how our rights are preserved—or lost—as books go digital

23. The Problem with Digital Books: Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)

24. What is DRM? “DRM” = Digital Rights/Restrictions Management. DRM controls access to digital content and restricts the functionality of devices. DRM relies on two forms of secrecy; one is the encryption key, the other is the proprietary code that the hardware executes. As the end user, the key that is being used to encrypt and decrypt content is a secret that is kept from you. The internal functioning of the hardware you are using is likewise kept secret. If the user could find out either of these secrets (the key or what the machine is doing) the DRM would be broken. In many cases, breaking DRM is considered a criminal act.

26. Consumer Protection

27. Privacy

28. Fair Use

29. Sharing“In essence, DRM treats the Information user as attacker on her own computer, blocking uses of information undesired by the provider, regardless of whether the information object is legally owned and whether the use in question is otherwise legally permissable.” --Jason Puckett “Digital Rights Management as Information Access Barrier”

30. DRM restricts our Control over Hardware and Freedom to Tinker

31. DRM is at odds with consumer protection via troublesome End User License Agreements (EULAS)

32. DRM restricts Fair Use Devices should not Control Us. Scholarship should not Criminalize Us.

33. DRM threatens our Privacy and the Freedom to Read

34. DRM restricts Sharing (and Threatens Libraries)

35. The Two Main Commercial Models for Digital Books (Both Rely on DRM)

36. Lending Tethered Devices

37. Problems and Concerns with Current Library Ebook Models Almost All Ebook Vendors use DRM

38. Limited Printing

39. Caged vs. Free Range Downloading Adobe Digital Editions = DRM

40. There’s no such thing as “Minimal DRM”

41. Simultaneous Readers and “Checked Out” Ebooks

42. Rental vs. Ownership

43. Disappearing Books, Diminishing Budgets, and Permanent Collections

44. How Ebook models are different from electronic journal subscriptions

45. The Digital Divide

46. http://ushep.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

47. Connectivity Problems and Lack of Access to Technology can translate into Academic Barriers

48. In Summary, Our Concerns about Current Library Ebook Models: DRM restricts our ability to: Print Download Use Texts with Others and Collaborate Retain and Archive our Purchases Make Information Accessible to our Patrons (Or anything else the vendor/publisher would like to restrict…)

49. The Results of Digital Book Restrictions: A Few Horror Stories

50. DRM Horror Story #1: The Amazon Kindle

51. It’s not just the Kindle that Threatens Readers’ Rights…

52. DRM Horror Story #2: Harper Collins

53. “Conglomeritis”

54. http://boycottharpercollins.com

55. Why Retain only the Negative Features of Print Books? i.e. Scarcity, Fragility

56. What’s the Solution?

57. The Readers’ Bill of Rights for Digital Books *As readers of traditional print materials, we are already guaranteed all of these rights--and we should not be denied them due to the medium in which we are reading.

58. READERS' BILL OF RIGHTS for DIGITAL BOOKS 1. Ability to retain, archive and transfer purchased materials

59. READERS' BILL OF RIGHTS for DIGITAL BOOKS 1. Ability to retain, archive and transfer purchased materials 2. Ability to create a paper copy of the item in its entirety

60. READERS' BILL OF RIGHTS for DIGITAL BOOKS 1. Ability to retain, archive and transfer purchased materials 2. Ability to create a paper copy of the item in its entirety 3. Digital books should be in an open format (e.g. you could read on a computer, not just a device)

61. READERS' BILL OF RIGHTS for DIGITAL BOOKS 1. Ability to retain, archive and transfer purchased materials 2. Ability to create a paper copy of the item in its entirety 3. Digital books should be in an open format (e.g. you could read on a computer, not just a device) 4. Choice of hardware to access books (e.g. in 3 years when your device has broken, you can still read your book on other hardware)

62. READERS' BILL OF RIGHTS for DIGITAL BOOKS 1. Ability to retain, archive and transfer purchased materials 2. Ability to create a paper copy of the item in its entirety 3. Digital books should be in an open format (e.g. you could read on a computer, not just a device) 4. Choice of hardware to access books (e.g. in 3 years when your device has broken, you can still read your book on other hardware) 5. Reader information will remain private (what, when and how we read will not be stored, sold or marketed)

63. What You Can Do

64. Choose Your Own Adventure: A few Actions Against DRM Release your own work without restrictive licensing or DRM Refuse to spend your library’s budget on restricted materials Talk with your patrons and colleagues about the right to read and DRM Let vendorsand publishers know that you oppose digital restrictions Remain aware of the ways that purchases (of items such as Kindles or subscriptions to online ebookcollections) affect readers’ rights Help this project: give us feedback for the next version of the Readers’ Bill of Rights for Digital Books Take part in the Day Against DRM: participate and help make May 4, 2011 the last one ever!

65. Librarians have (more than just) buying power

66. Digital Books are still Appealing without DRM! All the features that make ebooks amazing would still continue to amaze without DRM!

67. This Project Could become Irrelevant Tomorrow…

68. More Information & Resources on Our Website

69. Alycia Sellie asellie @ brooklyn.cuny.edu Matthew Goins me @ matthewgoins.org http://readersbillofrights.info identi.ca & twitter: @readersrights

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