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(ADE usually remembers that there was an unfinished download and may prompt Joe to retry.) If any of this fails, the download fails and Joe will have to try opening the.The signing server checks that everyone is who they say they are, and gives the go-ahead for the ACS to deliver Joe’s ebook.

At the same time, Ingram’s ACS has a conversation with Adobe’s own signing server (either the US one or the UK one).

Joe’s ADE and Ingram’s ACS have a little conversation, in which ADE gives ACS Joe’s Adobe ID and the ACS packages an ebook file specifically for that ID.

acsm file carries instructions and a hyperlink that tell ADE to get Joe’s new ebook straight from Ingram’s ACS. (Joe may get frustrated at this point and call the call centre for help or just never buy another ebook.) But let’s say Joe has ADE installed, and it opens the. If he hasn’t installed such software, his computer won’t know what to do with the.

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Adobe Digital Editions), that software can open the.

If he has suitable Adobe-RMSDK-based software on his computer already (e.g.

(Some retailers are worse than others at explaining this to customers.) It’ll be some thing like Potato_Farming_in_the_Hebrides.acsm. He thinks he’s downloaded the ebook, but he hasn’t yet. acsm (Adobe Content Server Message) file.

He clicks the link, and actually downloads a small.

Joe pays with his credit card, after which he clicks a link on that says ‘Download ebook’.

Let’s say Joe’s ebook, Potato Farming in the Hebrides, happens to come from Ingram Digital.

Both distributors use Adobe Content Servers to deliver DRMed ebooks, and pay Adobe about $6000 a year for the software, and $0.22 each time someone buys an ebook.

gets its catalogue from two big distributors, Ingram Digital and Gardners.

Here is what happens in the background, and where DRM fits in: Let’s say Joe Bloggs buys an ebook from (fictional) ebook retailer, downloads it and reads it on his computer. (If you don’t care how it works, skip down to ‘Choosing Adobe DRM settings’.)

On the user’s end, ebooks encrypted by an Adobe Content Server are opened and read by software built on an Adobe engine – technically, Adobe’s Reader Mobile SDK – such as Adobe Digital Editions (ADE), txtr and a range of e-ink readers ( Sony, Bookeen, iRiver, etc.).

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a PDF with Adobe DRM cannot be opened on a Kindle device or app.)Īdobe DRM is applied and managed on the distributor’s end with an Adobe Content Server. An ebook with one kind of DRM cannot be opened with software that uses another (e.g. Most other major ebook distributors and retailers use Adobe DRM. Amazon and Apple use their own DRM systems for ebooks they sell. There are three major DRM ecosystems in the book world: Amazon’s (for the Kindle), Apple’s (called FairPlay), and Adobe’s. At Electric Book Works we always recommend not using DRM but we know not everyone agrees with us. The question you should ask yourself is not ‘Shall we go DRM-free’ or ‘What DRM should we use’, but ‘Do we need DRM on this?’ That said, if you do choose to use DRM, at some point you’ll have to choose DRM settings for an Adobe Content Server. Whether you choose to use DRM on your ebooks is up to you, and should depend on your sales and distribution strategy for each book or list of books. Usually, DRM involves some kind of encryption that locks a document to a user’s identity, so that they can’t share it with anyone else. Digital Rights Management (DRM) is any technological constraint on what a user can do with a document.