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The Walled Gardens Of Ebook Surveillance, Alycia Sellie
The Walled Gardens Of Ebook Surveillance, Alycia Sellie
LACUNY Institute 2015
Libraries have more options than ever before to provide access to ebooks for their patrons. New platforms, approaches and content providers get involved in ebook sales as time goes on. And there is a lack of critical evaluation of what information is being sent to whom about what our patrons view, download and read.
In this talk, I discuss the concept of patron tracking in ebooks, by looking at various other services and platforms outside of libraries (i.e. Starbucks, Disney Land) which are well known to track user information. I’ll compare these to common ebook platforms (which use Digital Restrictions/Rights …