Readium LCP

Last updated
Readium Foundation
Formation2018;7 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).[ citation needed ]

Internet Archive is lending LCP-protected ebooks. [3] Instituto Cervantes has Spanish courses. BiblioVault serves 90 scholarly presses. Shanghai Library is the second largest public library in China.

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. "LCP adopters – EDRLab" . Retrieved 18 September 2024.
  4. "Getting to Know Readium LCP – FBReader". fbreader.org. Retrieved 18 September 2024.