# Readium LCP

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Digital rights management system

Readium Foundation Formation 2018; 8 years ago (2018) Purpose Digital rights management Board of directors Laurent Le Meur Risa Wolf Brian O’Leary Hadrien Gardeur Robert Cartolano Website readium.org

Readium LCP Filename extension .lcpl Developed by Readium 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](/source/Open_standard)[2] for a [digital rights management](/source/Digital_rights_management) (DRM) system for [ebooks](/source/Ebook) by Readium Foundation. It supports the [EPUB](/source/EPUB) publication format. It uses [AES-256](/source/Advanced_Encryption_Standard) encryption with [SHA-2](/source/SHA-2) hashing. It uses [X.509](/source/X.509) digital certificates. It has SDK for [Swift](/source/Swift_(programming_language)) and [Kotlin](/source/Kotlin_(programming_language)).

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

[Internet Archive](/source/Internet_Archive) is lending LCP-protected ebooks.[4] [Instituto Cervantes](/source/Instituto_Cervantes) has Spanish courses. [BiblioVault](/source/BiblioVault) serves 90 scholarly presses.

## Hardware

- [Bookeen](/source/Bookeen)

- [PocketBook International](/source/PocketBook_International)

## Software

- Bibblix by [Stockholm Public Library](/source/Stockholm_Public_Library)

- [FBReader](/source/FBReader)[5]

## Lending

- Bibliopresto operates pretnumerique.ca

- [MLOL Medialibrary online](https://www.medialibrary.it/)

## Stores

- Beleven

- Bokus

- Glassboxx

- ePagine

## See also

- [Books portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Books)

- [Comparison of e-book formats](/source/Comparison_of_e-book_formats)

- [Adobe Digital Editions](/source/Adobe_Digital_Editions) (ADE)

- [Digital Accessible Information System](/source/Digital_Accessible_Information_System) (DAISY)

- [Open Publication Distribution System](/source/Open_Publication_Distribution_System) (OPDS)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Readium Licensed Content Protection 1.0"](https://readium.org/lcp-specs/releases/lcp/latest.html). *Readium LCP - ebook DRM*. Retrieved 18 September 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Readium.org – Contributing"](https://readium.org/development/contributing/). Retrieved 12 March 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Readium LCP - EDRLab"](https://www.edrlab.org/projects/readium-lcp/). *EDRLab*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20260105200515/http://www.edrlab.org/projects/readium-lcp/) from the original on 2026-01-05. Retrieved 2026-01-25.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["LCP adopters – EDRLab"](https://www.edrlab.org/readium-lcp/certified-apps-servers/). Retrieved 18 September 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Getting to Know Readium LCP – FBReader"](https://fbreader.org/blog/readium_lcp). *fbreader.org*. Retrieved 18 September 2024.

## External links

- [https://readium.org/lcp-specs/](https://readium.org/lcp-specs/)

- [Readium](https://github.com/readium) on [GitHub](/source/GitHub)

- [Readium LCP](https://x.com/readiumorg) on [X](/source/X_(social_network))

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