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Online publishing and ebooks are currently in their infancy and the new market that the internet presents has encouraged an increasing number of publishers to adopt electronic publishing. This advancement is well underway with new mobile technologies being developed such as Sony’s Reader Digital Book as an alternative to the paperback and Nintendo has followed suit by releasing the 100 Classic Book Collection for their portable DS device.  The current file formats currently available to the majority of publishers, such as Adobe’s Portable Document File (PDF), Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and Microsoft’s Document (DOC) present an immediate problem in terms of piracy as they offer little in the way of copyright protection. Publishers and writers, when entering the digital market of e-commerce, need to recognise and plan for the threat of internet piracy. We have developed a unique method to deter those users prepared to infringe intellectual property legislation and distribute work that is subject to copyright protection. We can also enforce the copyright of rights holders to ensure lost revenue is recovered.
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