電子書租借應用之研究

A Study of Electronic Book Rental Models and Applications

温晴芳(Ching-Fang Wen)

指導教授 ： 薛夙珍

朝陽科技大學/資訊學院/資訊管理系碩士在職專班/碩士(2011年)

摘要

智慧型手機的迅速發展與行動上網的普及，提昇了使用行動商務的意願，例如行動娛樂、行動交易、行動數位資訊閱讀等服務；其中行動電子書帶動了一種新的閱讀方式，能隨時隨地以行動設備閱讀所喜好的書籍。然而，目前為能保護出版商與作者的權益，電子書的售價仍然偏高，且無法移轉與租借，較不具使用彈性。因此本論文以行動電子書作為研究主軸，將實體環境的租借模式延伸至行動數位環境中，根據P2P分享概念與B2C電子書租借平台，提出具安全性與便利性之電子書租借協定。
論文中所提出的P2P電子書租借協定，在不減損作者或出版商權益的情況下，讓讀者運用P2P分享方式租借到所需書籍，不但能增加電子書的流通與分享，也能有效控管書籍的發行。此外，也設計一個B2C電子書平台，除了方便讀者搜尋所需書籍並進行租借外，並且提供交換分享其他讀者的重點註記、心情分享或是書評等筆記之機制，讓使用者能更彈性的取得各種電子書與相關資訊。
為了有效控管書籍的流通和傳送時的安全，本論文運用數位權利管理技術中的權利物件(Right Object, RO)，來紀錄書籍擁有人與租借者的權限關係。這樣的設計，不但能保障交易雙方對電子書的閱讀權限，也能避免電子書被大量複製轉傳而影響作者的權益。此外，也以特定金鑰對電子書內容與RO作加密保護，藉此保護內容的安全以避免非法複製。

關鍵字

電子書 ； 數位權利管理 ； 資訊安全

並列摘要

The rapid development of smart phones and the popularity of mobile Internet enhance the willingness of using mobile commerce, including mobile entertainment, online transactions, digital publications reading-on-the-road, and so on. Among them, electronic book (e-Book) leads to a new way of reading and enables the reading by mobile devices anytime and anywhere.
However, to protect the interests of publishers and authors, current retailing prices of e-books are often expensive. Additionally, e-books cannot be transferred or rented so that the flexibility is reduced in comparison to paper books. In this thesis, it extend existing rental model for paper books and propose a rental protocol, based on P2P sharing in a B2C e-book platform, for secure and flexible rentals of e-books.
In the proposed protocol, readers may rent an e-Book but both the publisher and the authors lose no benefits. Thus, the flow and sharing of the E-Book are increased but the issuing of the e-book is effectively controlled. In addition, a B2C e-book platform is devised to allow users to access e-books and related information more flexibly. The platform eases the searching and rental of e-books, and facilitates the exchanging of readers’ notes, experience sharing, or reviews.
In order to effectively control the circulation of the e-book and the security of transmission, the study use digital rights management technology to separate the ownership and readership of an e-book. The right object (RO) of an e-book delineates permissions of the rental by the owner. The mechanism protects not only the owner and the renter in a rental but also the author’s profit from illegal e-book transferring or copying. In addition, the RO and an encryption key altogether protect the content from illegal readable replications.

並列關鍵字

Information Security ； and Digital Rights Management (DRM) ； Electronic Book (e-Book)

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