Diesel-eBooks announced the deployment of a free online tool designed to dramatically reduce the uncertainty of downloading an encrypted e-book. Digital Rights Management, the technology used by e-book publishers to protect author's works from being illegally duplicated, has long been a double edged sword. While it has provided publishers and author's confidence in distributing their product in digital form, it has complicated the process of purchasing an e-book and even deterred some consumers from e-books altogether. It is these consumers Diesel is hoping to serve with the test download by essentially giving them a <A HREF="http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=testdownload">try before you buy</A> experience.