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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Can you even remove iBooks from the iPad to a PC? FairPlay music/vids can be put on the hard drive in order to crack them; I'm not sure iBooks are available like that--I thought they were locked in Apple's internal code and not independently transferable.
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I'm pretty sure you can download them to iTunes. They're certainly stored when you backup your device and you could use any backup-cracking tool to extract them from that. Also, any rooted iOS device can browse the filesystem, either from the device itself or via ssh (and pull files off using sftp). Then it's just a matter of figuring out where the files are. Since everybody iBook install has the Winnie the Pooh book, find that and you've found where iBooks stores its data.
Cracking it will be trickier, since you can't exactly attach a debugger to iBooks and see what it's doing. But given knowledge of how FairPlay works for videos and music and knowledge of how DRM hooks into the ePub format, a capable FairPlay hacker should be able to figure it out without too many difficulties. The problem is that there's really no demand for it. If you look at the Requiem message boards, I think I've seen all of one request for ebook crack support, and the reply to that was essentially "Nobody cares, but if you want to learn go for it".