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"Get ready to get educated. With ebooks finally generating a profound impact in the digitial publishing world, the third annual NISO/BISG Standards Forum was a welcome sight for librarians, publishers, and content providers dealing with the challenges that ebook creation, distribution, and use is having on the marketplace. The big news from this session is that great minds are making sense out of the growing world of digital content. So go ahead. Try to imagine what the library or publishing world would be like without ISBNs. And then appreciate the work being done behind the scenes in negotiating DRM (digital rights management), fear of format death, open access, and piracy. . ."

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