As mentioned earlier, you can also control how many devices a buyer can access the eBook on, with most publishers usually putting a limit on six. Most places that sell eBooks have DRM protection already set up, which means your site should too. Many of the leading tech brands such as iBooks, Nook, Amazon, and Google Play Books use DRM protection, which is why all of the biggest names in books sell through those channels — their digital copyrights are safe there.
There are lots of different ways to restrict access to your eBook, so there are many different DRMs out there. What Amazon is doing is not selling you the book itself, but a license for you to read it. Apple is another giant that created a DRM protection scheme, which they call Fairplay.
Thankfully, there are a handful of great companies that can provide you with seamless eBook DRM protection. To download and read books on the Kobo device, users have to download the Adobe Digital Editions ADE app onto their devices beforehand. Our very own Kotobee platform uses a different approach to the standard DRM. Using cloud technology, an ebook is encrypted with an encryption key, stored on a server, and unique for each user.
Authenticating correctly would retrieve the encryption key from the server, and decrypt the ebook content. What we see great about this approach is that it is not specific to a certain device model. Rather, this same DRM scheme can protect an ebook running on different devices and in different formats: web, mobile, or desktop. The ebook needs first to be turned into a cloud ebook app. DRM means your work is protected against illegal copying or editing — and if this happens your right to take action is protected.
On the other side of the argument, different devices may support the same EPUB format, but ebook sellers will use different DRM schemes when selling books. It means that, for sellers at least, the consumer gets only so many chances at using the ebook on devices, before they have to buy another version. Instead, you have to buy an Amazon-specific device such as a Kindle or download an app to do this. It means that you may also have to download and pay for the same book again if you use a different device to read the same ebook.
A further criticism of DRM is that if you switch to a different book store, you will no longer be able to access the book — which will also happen if the bookstore itself folds. My PRS has hardware page turn buttons.
It is what I use mostly. Essentially, the ePub standard does not specify a standard DRM. As a result, there are actually several different competing DRM schemes. Unfortunately, it does require registering your device. Apple DRM Oh, right forgot to answer your question about the Sony Readers.
Yes, they have a small hardware page turn buttons at the bottom left. I would also revisit your dislike of touch screens.. Last point, there are a few bookstores that sell DRM free books. Fictionwise still sells them though very few books published less than a year or two ago..
Originally Posted by jgaskell. With Adobe you set up an account with Adobe Digital Editions and then you register your "device" to that account. There is a limit I think it is 6 but I'm not sure of how many devices can be registered to one Adobe Digital Account. Once you reach that limit you can contact Adobe and they will free up the space from the old devices you aren't using anymore.
People have reported problems in actually getting Adobe to do that. My advice is to learn how to liberate your books of DRM and buy your digital reader based on the device that has the features you like. After all, if you buy a nook or a Sony next - won't you want to read your Amazon books that you've bought on that device and whatever devices you own in the future? Whoops, was typing that when you said about where the buttons are Bill, thanks to both of you guys! Originally Posted by abookreader.
All this value achieved can be lost if your content is not copyright protected. With DRM protected eBooks you can significantly increase your ROI by ensuring you get paid for your intellectual property rather than losing it.
Control not only who views your content but what they do with it. With DRM, you can define a lifecycle by setting an expiry date. Once this date is reached, the buyer of your eBook would no longer be able to view the content.
Besides, you can also monitor who has actually viewed your documents and if they have tried to pass on their authorization to others, and who these other people are. Your business may involve dealing with a lot of people outside your company network, which means that you would need to provide authorized access to confidential information to such people.
The responsibility of maintaining this confidentiality is solely yours. To ensure confidentiality of data, you would need to comply with several regulations, for example, Sarbanes-Oxley SOX which aims to ensure secure control of business information. By implementing DRM protection, you can store sensitive information such as personal data and distribute it to the right people without any loss of control.
By collaborating with the right technology partner, you can ensure that your content is safe in the form of DRM-protected secure eBooks and it reaches the right audience at the right time.
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