eBookGuard: This program is for authors who want to sell or distribute text material online. This program will encrypt your text and image files. This includes an eBook reader for displaying the document. Users cannot copy your files. This program is ideal for authors who wish to sell books and/or technical information online. This program works, optionally, with ShareGuard to provide a lock and key system for selling e-Books. 2 Basic Components: eBookGuard Publisher - allows you tailor your e-Book and to create your document. eBookGuard Reader - this program and the encrypted data is distributed. Only the eBookGuard Reader can decrypt the document. 3 Basic Security Features: eBookGuard Reader - the eBookGuard reader program will decrypt your document and display it to the user. The user cannot cut and paste, print or save the document. eBookGuard User Encryption - the eBookGuard encrypts your eBook so that only the specified reader program will be able to decrypt your document and display it to the user. ShareGuard (optional) - the ShareGuard program will check the licensing of the eBook before allowing the program to run. If the user is not licensed then the eBook will not display your eBook contents. This program allows for marketing of books and/or upselling other products by providing addtional marketing screens and/or AdWare programs to run with the e-Book. This provides a turnkey system to sell e-Books online and ensure that only 1 user can read the book. The eBookGuard along with ShareGuard will prevent users from copying your material or re-distributing the eBook. This eBook system can be used to sell novels or code snippets or highly technical information. Use eBookGuard to protect your intellectual property.