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Digimarc to Demo, Discuss Anti-Piracy Solution for E-Book Distributors at Frankfurt Book Fair
October 2014 by Marc Jacob
Digimarc Corporation announced a demo of Digimarc(R) Guardian Watermarking for Publishing at Frankfurt Book Fair being held October 8-12 in Frankfurt, Germany. The company will also join guest speaker Imke Reimers, Assistant Professor of Economics, Northeastern University, in two sessions titled "Effect of Piracy Protection in Book Publishing." Session attendees will learn the effect of illegal distribution of books on regular book sales, including a comparison of book sales with and without Digimarc’s piracy protection.
Digimarc Guardian Watermarking embeds unique, imperceptible and traceable digital watermarks into e-books, enabling distributors and publishers to track where their content is appearing online and identify sources of leakage. HarperCollins Publishers uses Digimarc Guardian Watermarking to protect its US e-book catalog, distributed globally.
The cloud-based Digimarc Guardian platform offers easy-to-integrate API support for most e-book formats, including EPUB, PDF and MOBI. For each transaction, the platform generates a unique, traceable digital watermark and embeds it throughout the e-book. It’s extremely difficult for pirates to locate and remove these imperceptible digital identifiers.
Digimarc’s anti-piracy service then crawls the web 24x7 searching for watermarked content. When a watermark is detected, Digimarc provides the unique identifier to the publisher to match against its own transaction records. By stopping and identifying leaks in their digital supply chain that result in piracy, publishers can ensure authors are being properly compensated for their work.
