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An approach to secure EPUB ebook content

EPUB is an industry standard e-book format. Digital content owners and producers use Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect and regulate the mechanism of distribution and usage of those digital assets. The features of content protection may range from limiting simple copying or transferring the...

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Main Authors: Faniband, Yunus Parvej, Nandyal, Aslam, Ishak, Iskandar, Sidi, Fatimah, A. Jabar, Marzanah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Database Technologies and Applications Research Group (DbTA), Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2019
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75520/1/ISICTMA2019-8.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.755202019-10-07T07:39:05Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75520/ An approach to secure EPUB ebook content Faniband, Yunus Parvej Nandyal, Aslam Ishak, Iskandar Sidi, Fatimah A. Jabar, Marzanah EPUB is an industry standard e-book format. Digital content owners and producers use Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect and regulate the mechanism of distribution and usage of those digital assets. The features of content protection may range from limiting simple copying or transferring the content, and enabling reading to an authorized reader hardware/software, to complex enterprise distribution policies involving user and device authentication for a specific duration. Commercial E-Publishing services offer to help authors to self-publish or distribute their eBooks with DRM on agreed royalty terms. These E-Publishing services mandate extensive guidelines and procedures to make the content readable and use a proprietary format with DRM. Since International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) has no standardized algorithm for copyright protection of EPUB, there is a challenge to secure the EPUB content following the copyright recommendations. In this paper, we present an overview of the proposed EPUB Content protection and control system and explain a mechanism to protect the EPUB content in a cross-platform open source EPUB editor. We have implemented a prototype of the system using the ‘Sigil‘ EPUB authoring tool. Database Technologies and Applications Research Group (DbTA), Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75520/1/ISICTMA2019-8.pdf Faniband, Yunus Parvej and Nandyal, Aslam and Ishak, Iskandar and Sidi, Fatimah and A. Jabar, Marzanah (2019) An approach to secure EPUB ebook content. In: International Symposium on ICT Management and Administration (ISICTMA2019), 31 July-2 Aug. 2019, Putrajaya Marriott Hotel, Malaysia. (pp. 46-50).
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description EPUB is an industry standard e-book format. Digital content owners and producers use Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect and regulate the mechanism of distribution and usage of those digital assets. The features of content protection may range from limiting simple copying or transferring the content, and enabling reading to an authorized reader hardware/software, to complex enterprise distribution policies involving user and device authentication for a specific duration. Commercial E-Publishing services offer to help authors to self-publish or distribute their eBooks with DRM on agreed royalty terms. These E-Publishing services mandate extensive guidelines and procedures to make the content readable and use a proprietary format with DRM. Since International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) has no standardized algorithm for copyright protection of EPUB, there is a challenge to secure the EPUB content following the copyright recommendations. In this paper, we present an overview of the proposed EPUB Content protection and control system and explain a mechanism to protect the EPUB content in a cross-platform open source EPUB editor. We have implemented a prototype of the system using the ‘Sigil‘ EPUB authoring tool.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Faniband, Yunus Parvej
Nandyal, Aslam
Ishak, Iskandar
Sidi, Fatimah
A. Jabar, Marzanah
spellingShingle Faniband, Yunus Parvej
Nandyal, Aslam
Ishak, Iskandar
Sidi, Fatimah
A. Jabar, Marzanah
An approach to secure EPUB ebook content
author_facet Faniband, Yunus Parvej
Nandyal, Aslam
Ishak, Iskandar
Sidi, Fatimah
A. Jabar, Marzanah
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title An approach to secure EPUB ebook content
title_short An approach to secure EPUB ebook content
title_full An approach to secure EPUB ebook content
title_fullStr An approach to secure EPUB ebook content
title_full_unstemmed An approach to secure EPUB ebook content
title_sort approach to secure epub ebook content
publisher Database Technologies and Applications Research Group (DbTA), Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate 2019
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/75520/1/ISICTMA2019-8.pdf
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