Readium LCP

Last updated
Readium Foundation
Formation2018;8 years ago (2018)
Purpose Digital rights management
  • Laurent Le Meur
  • Risa Wolf
  • Brian O’Leary
  • Hadrien Gardeur
  • Robert Cartolano
Website readium.org
Readium LCP
Filename extension
.lcpl
Developed byReadium Foundation
Type of format Ebook
Contained by EPUB
Extended from JSON, XML [1]
Standard ISO/IEC 23078-2:2024
Open format?Yes
Free format?Yes
Website readium.org/lcp-specs/

Readium LCP is an open standard [2] for a digital rights management (DRM) system for ebooks by Readium Foundation. It supports the EPUB publication format. It uses AES-256 encryption with SHA-2 hashing. It uses X.509 digital certificates. It has SDK for Swift and Kotlin.

Contents

The project got financial help from Korea Copyright Commission (KCC). [3]

Internet Archive is lending LCP-protected ebooks. [4] Instituto Cervantes has Spanish courses. BiblioVault serves 90 scholarly presses.

Hardware

Software

Lending

Stores

See also

References

  1. "Readium Licensed Content Protection 1.0". Readium LCP - ebook DRM. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  2. "Readium.org – Contributing" . Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  3. "Readium LCP - EDRLab". EDRLab. Archived from the original on 2026-01-05. Retrieved 2026-01-25.
  4. "LCP adopters – EDRLab" . Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  5. "Getting to Know Readium LCP – FBReader". fbreader.org. Retrieved 18 September 2024.