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Readium LCP is a open standard for a digital rights management (DRM) system for ebooks by Readium Foundation. It supports the EPUB publication format. It uses AES-256 encryption with SHA-2 hashing. It uses X.509 digital certificates. It has SDK for Swift and Kotlin.
The lawsuit in question, which was never cut and dry to begin with, was filed by Penguin and Simon & Schuster against Abbey House Media, a company that used to sell e-books for them.
As of 2014, over 90% of U.S. public libraries offer ebook lending. [1] Many of those libraries use Rakuten OverDrive, which provides ebook access to about 43,000 libraries and schools in 76 countries. [2] Overdrive is the only eLending service that works with the Amazon Kindle, but that functionality is limited to U.S. library readers only. [3]
OverDrive, Inc. is a worldwide digital distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, online magazines and streaming video titles. The company provides digital rights management and download fulfillment services for publishers, public libraries, K–12 schools, colleges, universities, corporations, legal industries, and formerly retailers.
Barnes & Noble uses DRM technology provided by Adobe, applied to EPUBs and the older PDB (Palm OS) format e-books. Amazon's DRM is an adaption of the original Mobipocket encryption and is applied to Amazon's .azw4, KF8, and Mobipocket format e-books. Topaz format e-books have their own encryption system. [106]
Due to the book publishers' DRM policies, Amazon claims there is no right of first sale with e-books and states that, since e-books are licensed, not purchased (unlike paper books), buyers do not actually own their e-books. This claim has never been tested in court, and the outcome of any action by Amazon is uncertain.
The Kindle Store is an online e-book e-commerce store operated by Amazon as part of its retail website and can be accessed from any Amazon Kindle, Fire tablet, or Kindle mobile app. At the launch of the Kindle in November 2007, the store had more than 88,000 digital titles available in the U.S. store. [ 2 ]
The Open Library CDL system ensured that only one digital copy is in use for each print copy or otherwise authorized ebook copy available. On March 24, 2020, following shutdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic , the Internet Archive opened the National Emergency Library , removing the waitlists used in Open Library and expanding access to these ...