Lirtuel is recommending Aldiko Next as a mobile app for accessing its content via an OPDS catalog. In Belgium, the e-lending platform Lirtuel offers LCP protected ebooks and audiobooks to its patron. It has also developed white-labelled mobile apps for SFGateway, Reading House, Hope Books. In the UK, Firsty Group has adopted LCP (using the Readium LCP Server provided by EDRLab) for its direct to consumer Glassboxx platform and for the Ulverscroft platform developed for providing ebooks and audiobooks to public libraries in the UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and US. Note that Bookeen e-ink readers are sold in many countries, as are Pocketbook devices. These companies have also developed LCP enabled mobile companion apps. Some publishers, like Editis, have started selling their production with an LCP protection on their website.Īcademic publishing: John Libbey Eurotext has adopted LCP for its academic publications in 2022.Į-ink readers: The usage of LCP is eased by its support on two brands of e-ink readers sold in the country: Bookeen (Diva and Notéa) and Vivlio (i.e.
This involves a catalog of 500.000 EPUB and PDF ebooks, in French and English ( press release).
Numilog has also deployed LCP on its library website, on GirlyBoox and on its white label network. Retail: ePagine (which also powers Place des Libraires, Bookeen, Gibert, Gallimard and others) provides its complete catalog of ebooks as LCP and Adobe protected content (when it is not simply watermarked), and its comics are only LCP protected. Two other e-lending solutions are LCP compliant: La numérique and BiblioAccess. PNB explicitly recommends the use of LCP for EPUB and PDF titles and has developed a Readium based mobile application (Baobab Reader) with automatic synchronization of borrowed ebooks to push its usage. It is localized in a large set of languages and new locales are easily added.įrance has been the first country to move ahead with LCP, especially for e-lending, which explains why a large set of LCP compliant servers and applications are on the market today.Į-lending: the national e-lending service called PNB (Prêt Numérique en Bibliothèque) provides ebooks to a large set of French public libraries and distributes both LCP and Adobe protected ebooks, provided by different distributors ( Numilog, Eden Livres, Immatériel, Vivlio …). This application also supports PDF, DAISY publications, audiobooks and Divina comics. The support of the LCP DRM and OPDS catalogs makes it a great tool for library patrons.
Thorium Reader is a free desktop reading app usable on Windows 10, Mac and Linux. With this application, EDRLab firstly aims at offering a great EPUB 3 reading experience with an emphasis on accessibility for print disabled people. Based on the Readium Mobile toolkit, it is developed by De Marque and supports EPUB, audiobooks and PDF documents from any source (local folders and OPDS catalogs) and supports a large set of languages.
Pocketbook e-ink readers are available in many countries (including France as Vivlio devices), and they are LCP compliant.Īldiko Next is a free mobile app (iOS / Android).
This section contains a list of e-ink devices and reading applications localized in different languages, available worldwide and able to side-load an LCP license or LCP protected ebook.īookeen e-ink readers are available in several European countries, localized in 23 languages, and they are LCP compliant.