E-books from the University of Chicago Press

Select titles from the University of Chicago Press are available in electronic format. You can conveniently and quickly download e-books directly to your computer or handheld device and read them using Adobe® Digital Editions software, a free download from Adobe available for PC and Mac, as well as for e-book devices such as the Sony E-reader, COOL-ER, and other devices.

Our three options and prices

After you place the book in the University of Chicago Press shopping cart, you will need to choose one of three e-book licensing options:

• Perpetual ownership at list price
• 180-day ownership for about 50% of list price
• 30-day ownership for $5.00

Please note that all three options are available for most, but not all, of our e-books.

What can I do with my e-book?

• You can read and annotate the contents of the e-book on six unique devices via a single ID.
• You can print up to 50 pages of the book. (If you want to read from a printed page, we suggest that you buy the print edition rather than the e-book.)
  The fine print: We can’t guarantee that your printer will print from the e-book file. A few customers have reported printing problems. We think their issues have something to do with low memory errors. Most customers have not reported any trouble.
• You can copy and paste text from the e-book document one page at a time.
  The fine print: We can’t promise that you’ll copy perfect text out of every book. Some of our e-books are derived from scans, so OCR errors may occur in the copied text. Or the copied text may not have spaces between all the words. Please expect that copied and pasted text will require proofreading.
• The perpetual license gives you ownership of the e-book with these features indefinitely. The 30- and 180-day licenses allow the same options but only for the time period chosen.

Registration for Adobe® Digital Editions

After choosing a licensing option and successfully completing the purchase of an e-book through the University of Chicago Press shopping cart, you will receive an order confirmation and a link to download your e-book, as well as a link to Adobe’s Digital Editions software. The Adobe® Digital Editions software includes single-user digital rights management that requires the user to create an Adobe ID before accessing the content. Downloaded e-books from the University of Chicago Press can only be accessed by a single user ID, however up to six unique devices may be registered per ID, so you can backup, copy, or transfer digital content between devices. After the Adobe Digital Editions software has been installed and you have registered a valid ID with Adobe software, the content will remain accessible for the duration of your ownership period, even offline.

For further information on using Adobe’s Digital Editions software, please consult the Adobe’s Digital Editions FAQ.