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Apple will use its own content protection technology to prevent e-book pirating, instead of Adobe’s more wide-spread technology. As a result, you won’t be able to transfer iPad books on other e-readers or use an iPad to read e-books purchased from other digital stores. E-books sold via the iPad’s iBook store will be wrapped with FairPlay, Apple’s propriatory digital rights management (DRM) software that protects every type of iTunes content from unauthorized copying, except music which is DRM-free. Adobe’s senior business development manager Nick Bogaty told Computerworld that Apple will stick with its own FairPlay DRM to protect e-book purchases on the iPad:
Apple is currently using FairPlay DRM to enforce the use of movies, TV shows, audiobooks, ringtones, and iPhone applications to up to five computers authorized with the same iTunes Store account and any number of iPods and iPhones (soon iPads, too) that sync with those computers.
Apple has not licensed Adobe Content Server for their iBookstore. They appear to be doing something else.
The confirmation came following a Monday piece by the Los Angeles Times that first asserted that Apple was offering publishers its FairPlay DRM to protect iPad books. Apple originally developed FairPlay DRM at the request of music labels. As Apple added more content types to the iTunes Store, it continued using FairPlay DRM to protect those purchases from unauthorized copying.
Apple is currently using FairPlay DRM to enforce the use of movies, TV shows, audiobooks, ringtones, and iPhone applications to up to five computers authorized with the same iTunes Store account and any number of iPods and iPhones (soon iPads, too) that sync with those computers.
