The report linked below was released as part of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Technology Watch series.
Title
Preserving eBooks (DPC Technology Watch Report 14-01; June 2014)
Authors
Amy Kirchhoff
Portico
Sheila Morrissey
Ithaka S+R
Source
Digital Preservation Coalition
Abstract
This report discusses current developments and issues with which public, national, and higher education libraries, publishers, aggregators, and preservation institutions must contend to ensure long-term access to eBook content. These issues include legal questions about the use, reuse, sharing and preservation of eBook objects; format issues, including the sometimes tight coupling of eBook content with particular hardware platforms; the embedding of digital rights management artefacts in eBook files to restrict access to them; and the diverse business ecosystem of eBook publication, with its associated complexities of communities of use and, ultimately, expectations for preservation.
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36 pages; PDF.
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