Posts tagged DRM
Can We DeDRM eBooks After the Ruling from the Library of Congress?
The ruling from the Library of Congress provides DRM circumvention exemptions for the ebooks this way:
Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the book’s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.
Arstechnica nicely elaborate this in plain English:
Remember how Amazon got into trouble with publishers for allowing its Kindle to do automated text-to-speech? More >
PubIt B&N’s Publishing Platform Coming This Summer
Like Kindle, B&N have decided to open up self-publishing for Nook. It’s called PubIt. It will be available from this summer. To publish for Nook you need to open an account with B&N. There are some requirements, and it’s U.S.-only:
- A BN.com login, which you can create on the spot if you do not already have one
- Contact information for the account holder
- A U.S. Credit Card & U.S. Bank Account and all related information
- Your SSN/TIN/EIN
The format must be ePub, and you’ll be able to see your ebook on Nook emulator before submitting it. It seems all ebooks published through PubIt will be More >
PubIt B&N's Publishing Platform Coming This Summer
Like Kindle, B&N have decided to open up self-publishing for Nook. It’s called PubIt. It will be available from this summer. To publish for Nook you need to open an account with B&N. There are some requirements, and it’s U.S.-only:
- A BN.com login, which you can create on the spot if you do not already have one
- Contact information for the account holder
- A U.S. Credit Card & U.S. Bank Account and all related information
- Your SSN/TIN/EIN
The format must be ePub, and you’ll be able to see your ebook on Nook emulator before submitting it. It seems all ebooks published through PubIt will be More >
B&N Nook’s EPUB DRM Hacked and Cracked
i♥cabbages who happens to crack the kindle DRM with the program litled “unswindle” has also recently been able to circumvent B&N’s EPUB DRM. He writes, on his blog:
The basic idea behind the B&N EPUB scheme is the same as that used by the ill-fated eReader format B&N acquired – step 1: generate an encryption key from the book-purchaser’s name + credit card #; step 2: hope that they don’t like giving that information out to strangers. They like to call this a form of “social DRM,” although I believe a more appropriate term is “silly.”
He found that Windows version of the B&N’s eReader More >
B&N Nook’s EPUB DRM Hacked and Cracked
i♥cabbages who happens to crack the kindle DRM with the program litled “unswindle” has also recently been able to circumvent B&N’s EPUB DRM. He writes, on his blog:
The basic idea behind the B&N EPUB scheme is the same as that used by the ill-fated eReader format B&N acquired – step 1: generate an encryption key from the book-purchaser’s name + credit card #; step 2: hope that they don’t like giving that information out to strangers. They like to call this a form of “social DRM,” although I believe a more appropriate term is “silly.”
He found that Windows version of the B&N’s eReader More >
Why the Kindle platform should be opened?
Is Amazon going to open the Kindle platform in near future? The answer is probably “NO.” We consumers lack the ability to get the inside information, but we can guess that the decision to make the Kindle a closed platform was done by Amazon itself, not publishers. Book publishers might have encouraged Amazon to use DRMed. But does DRM per se have anything to do with a closed system? NO. Adobe’s Bill McCoy has recently written:
Kindle is far more closed even than iPod, which started out and have remained primarily players for MP3s, easily made from any audio CD. While Kindle supports a More >
