Readium LCP
Readium Licensed Content Protection (LCP) is a powerful, vendor-neutral eBook DRM solution offered by EditionGuard.
Benefits of Readium LCP
Readium is quickly becoming one of the most attractive and secure eBook DRM solutions on the market.
Lower Cost
Perhaps the biggest advantage of Readium LCP over Adobe DRM is cost. While offering a similar level of eBook DRM settings and encryption, the cost per download can be significantly less.
Supported Files
Readium LCP supports EPUB 2 and EPUB 3, including embedded audio and video content, plus Readium Packaged Web Publications such as audiobooks and DiViNa.
Vendor Neutral
Unlike Adobe DRM, Readium LCP is developed collaboratively within a nonprofit foundation of which EditionGuard is also a member. This allows for lower costs and greater flexibility, such as custom reader apps.
Readium Content Management
While not as granular in its content controls as Adobe DRM—which may be a good thing—Readium content management is more streamlined and sufficient for most use cases. When limiting the number of devices, it also allows more flexibility because there are no hard-coded limits as there are with Adobe DRM.
Display Permissions
Readium allows access-level control through a unique passphrase for each eBook encrypted with Readium LCP. You can also control when reading access expires, which is powerful if, for instance, you want to offer eBooks for rent.
Copy Permissions
With Readium, you can set the number of text characters that a user can copy and paste or restrict copying altogether. Copy permissions are an essential part of strong eBook DRM and help reduce illegal copies of your eBooks.
Printing Protections
Similar to copy permissions, Readium lets you control whether customers can print your content and, if so, how many pages at a time. This makes it significantly harder for pirates to distribute your eBook content, even if someone shares a passphrase.
A Secure eBook DRM
Readium is a passphrase-based digital rights management (DRM) technology for eBooks. Readers simply enter a unique access code you provide to view their content. There is no need to create another account, allowing for a better user experience.
Unlike other popular DRMs such as Adobe DRM, Readium is an open specification but is just as secure. Readium uses industry-leading encryption and hashing algorithms, including:
This means that, as an eBook publisher, you can securely fulfill eBook orders while your customers can easily read their eBooks but cannot share them with unauthorized users.