About Murach eBooks

What our eBooks are designed to do

• Our eBooks are designed to let you read them on up to 3 computers using a Viewer that runs on the Windows and Mac operating systems. Usually, those computers will include your primary computer and a laptop.
• This makes it easy for you to search our books when you use them for reference and to carry them with you on your laptop. Remember, though, that our "paired pages" format is one of the unique features of our books, and that format works best in print.
• At present, we don't offer our eBooks in any other formats like Kindle, Nook, or Safari, and we don't offer them for use on other devices like phones or handhelds.

How our eBooks work

• Our eBooks require that you install and register a special Viewer from a company named LockLizard. There's one version of the Viewer for Windows, and one for the Mac.
• When you buy our eBooks, you get 3 Viewer licenses. That means you can install and register the Viewer on 3 different computers.
• The installation takes just a couple of minutes, and you only need to do it once, no matter how many of our eBooks you buy.
• Once you've installed and registered the Viewer, you won't ever need to enter a user name or password to view one of our eBooks on that computer. The authorization is done automatically, due to the registration.
• The Viewer is similar to Adobe Reader, but simpler, and the eBook files have an extension of PDC instead of PDF. Each eBook is fully searchable and allows for unlimited printing. And all of the chapters and topics are bookmarked for easy access.

What you can't do with our eBooks

• Access our eBooks on other devices or with other viewers. In other words, we don't currently offer eBooks in Kindle, PDF, iPad, Sony Reader, Nook, phone, or mobile formats.
• Run the LockLizard Viewer in Citrix, Windows Terminal Server, and other virtual environments.
• Access our eBooks from a computer that doesn't have the Windows or Mac version of the LockLizard Viewer installed on it.
• Cut-and-paste, mark up text, add your own bookmarks, or change the existing bookmarks because the LockLizard Viewer doesn't provide for that.

What happens when you order an eBook

• You'll receive an email from us that gives you a link for retrieving your eBook.
• If you haven't bought an eBook from us before, you'll receive an email from LockLizard that tells you how to (1) install the Viewer, and (2) how to register the Viewer.
• If either email doesn't arrive, please check your junk or spam email folder. (In most cases, both emails arrive immediately, but the LockLizard email may take up to 30 minutes.)

Note: Please keep the emails and your eBooks with your software backups. Then, if you re-install your operating system or change your hard disk drive for any reason, you can re-install and re-register the Viewer and continue using it as before.

Our recommendations for Viewer settings

• Because our books use our unique "paired pages" format, we recommend that you set the Page Layout options in the View menu to Facing and the sizing option to Fit to Page. That way, you can see both pages in a pair at once.
• If those settings make the type too small for reading, you can close the Bookmarks panel by clicking on the rightmost button in the toolbar and then reset the View option to Fit to Page. Otherwise, you can increase the page size or use the default Single Page setting.
• Note, however, that the Mac Viewer doesn't provide for the Facing layout. It is also missing some of the other functionality of the Windows Viewer.

Your comments, please!

To put it simply, our goal is to provide easy-to-use eBooks for our customers without the risk of widespread piracy.

That's why we've chosen the LockLizard approach to eBook protection. Although we know this isn't the perfect solution for everyone, we sure hope that most of our customers will be more than satisfied with it.

Of course, if you have any comments about our eBooks or ideas on how to make them better, we would appreciate hearing from you. And thanks again for being our customer.

Email: murachbooks@murach.com
Phone: 1-800-221-5528