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Originally Posted by John123
No, I'm not the vendor. Here's what my client asked for:
"Hi John – we are getting more requests from book reviewers etc for a mobi or epub file for them to read rather than a PDF. The problem is the files are open so they can be shared infinitely if someone deliberately or accidentally copied them round. For the books you've converted is it possible to put some security setting on the files that would protect us from that risk?
Thanks"
I know they are being unreasonable, that's a fact of life, ask any supplier to major supermarkets. I just don't even know where to begin. Not quite true, I'm looking at Adept, but fail to see what I need to do to implement even this on their books.
John.
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Based on what they're asking you, am I correct in assuming that these are electronic review copies for books published in paper? The reason I'm asking is that Adobe DRM requires
somebody to have a server back-end that is itself an
Adobe product. If you're distributing relatively few copies, it's probably cost-prohibitive to buy the server software from Adobe. You might be able to find a service that would fulfill DRM ebooks for you, though.
It also sounds like your clients are under the impression that there's just a bit or something that you can twiddle that provides DRM (sort of like Macrovision on DVDs; DVD players are contractually required to honor the Macrovision bit). Even if you do decide to implement something, you might want to first make sure your client knows that this will require either a significant investment on their part (for Adobe or similar) or a significant effort on your part and even then the measures won't slow down potential infringers that are technically savvy. They may think that they're asking something trivial of you and might reconsider if they realize what they're asking.
If these review copies are of ebooks that are already for sale as ebooks, it might be worth asking someone like Amazon or Kobo if they'd create coupon codes for the book that could be distributed to reviewers, who could then download copies that have "industry standard" DRM applied.