A \u201clighter\u201d version of Digital Rights Management (DRM) may be coming to e-books after an association of e-book publishers issued a statement outlining a new DRM package.<\/p>\n
Current DRM systems require proprietary hardware and software to decrypt e-books, meaning books bought on an Amazon<\/a> Kindle won\u2019t work on a Barnes & Noble<\/a> Nook.<\/p>\n The new DRM system would lower production costs of e-reader hardware, and reduce client-server interactions to verify the e-books are on the correct reader.<\/p>\n A statement released by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) said, \u201cDRM is subject to a single over-arching limitation: the entities that want DRM (i.e. publishers and copyright owners) do not typically pay for it.”<\/p>\n “Instead, the cost of DRM is usually passed on to content distributors and retailers. Apart from its use for ‘lock-in,’ these downstream entities have no incentive to protect content other than as a contractual obligation to content licensors,” they continued.<\/p>\n “Thus it is understandable that distributors and retailers have been highly reluctant to pay for DRM-related features that do not directly benefit them.”<\/p>\n The IDPF said they would prefer to build the light DRM out of an existing format, but would consider building a new format from the ground up if there was enough interest and support.<\/p>\n Major e-book publishers are suggesting a lightweight DRM for future e-books<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[723,7823,10326,11833,11835,11837,851,7825],"class_list":["post-50577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-barnes-noble","tag-e-books","tag-e-publishing","tag-e-reader","tag-idpf","tag-kindle","tag-nook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50581,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50577\/revisions\/50581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Read the full story at: Ars Technica<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"