[free-sklyarov] Info2clear and Adobe Partner for Secure E-Books

[Seth Johnson]

http://www.onlinepublishingnews.com/htm/n20011008.046928.htm

Info2clear Partners with Adobe to Provide Secure E-Books

8 October 2001


Excerpt:

Info2clear, a leading European player in the digital copyright clearance
market, has concluded an agreement with Adobe Systems. Via Info2clear's
Digital Rights Management services, publishers and retailers can now
distribute Adobe Portable Format (PDF)-based ebooks in a secure way...

The partnership enables Info2clear to further expand its get-a-view
service to the business environment. Adobe ebooks are based on Adobe PDF
and are therefore suitable for business reports and technical texts. 

Info2clear will integrate Adobe Content Server and Adobe Acrobat eBook
Reader into its clearance infrastructure. The Adobe Content Server is an
end-to-end software solution that enables publishers, online content
distributors and resellers to secure and distribute Adobe PDF-based
eBooks. Adobe's solution enables content providers to encrypt their
Adobe PDF files for immediate online sales as ebooks. The software works
easily with existing IT environments, allowing users to secure
intellectual property and tightly control digital rights and
distribution. 

"Publishers are extremely concerned about revenue loss due to illegal
copying and clearly fear an analogy to Napster for eBooks", says Jan
Spooren, vice president technical developments and executive director at
Info2clear. "The Adobe Content Server offers a number of very appealing
Digital Rights Management (DRM) features, allowing the publisher to
define precisely which kind of access he wishes to grant the end-user."