Currently the NYPL-built iOS ereader offers a copy/paste mechanism within the reader. This function is meant to allow a user to look up words or phrases, create annotations, and select content for quotes for academic or research use. 

In the Open eBooks context, the presented ebooks have perpetual access licenses generously donated by publishers and the distributor Baker and Taylor (B&T). They have strong concerns about piracy and have made it a condition of our MOU that generic copy/paste be removed. However, we want to retain the copy/paste mechanism for SimplyE and we still want our young Open eBooks patrons to be able to look up a word without interrupting their reading. Therefore, we have to implement several features in order to satisfy all these needs: 

1. Create a toggle that will disable generic copy/paste in selected SimplyE front ends
2. Add the ability to select a word, and 
3. Add a dictionary feature to the app that can be implemented with several different language options.

From the document at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZpiGIfsA5_mA-eAlNrxF74AbHxrJRfCW6-3flmHj3AQ/edit?usp=sharing