It is notable for being written before the use of Digital Rights Management technology was widespread (although DVD video discs which used DRM had appeared the year before, and various proprietary software since the 1970s had made use of some form of copy protection), and for predicting later hardware-based attempts to restrict how users could use content, such as Trusted Computing.
Read-only memory | Herbert Read | Create, read, update and delete | Mike Read | Phil Read | Deborah Read | Thomas Read Kemp | read-only memory | Please Read Me | Jason Read | I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again | If You Could Read My Mind | Warburg Dillon Read | The Big Read | Seth Read | Richard Read | Read | Maurice Read | Mary Read | John Kingsley Read | James Read | I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again | If You Could Read My Mind (song) | George Read | Don Read | David Breakenridge Read | Albert Cushing Read | WW Read's XI | Waverton Good Read Award | Walter Read |
Each year ABFFE sponsors Banned Books Week, the only national celebration of the right to read, in conjunction with the American Booksellers Association, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the National Association of College Stores, and the American Library Association.
The bombing took place five days after the newspaper published an editorial defending the right to read Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, while the editorial was still on newsstands.