The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Apple is going to use their proprietary FairPlay digital rights management (DRM) technology for eBooks sold through the iBookstore on iPad.
Veteran iTunes customers will recognize the locks as FairPlay, a digital rights management software that once limited how many times digital songs can be copied onto different computers. (Apple phased out FairPlay a year ago, and now sells unfettered tunes.)
Next month, Apple will be dusting off those digital cuffs for books, according to sources in the publishing industry.
Apple itself has not publicly stated their DRM plans, however the report suggest that most, but not all publishers will likely use Apple’s FairPlay technology. O’Reilly Media, whom has defamed DRM in the past, is a publisher likely not to use FairPlay.
Apple is using the opensource EPUB standard for electronic books, but these files have DRM mechanisms attached to them to restrict usage. Apple’s FairPlay is not compatible with Adobe’s own DMR they attach to digital books they sell for their Kindle eBook reader.
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