It’s strange that they claim that they corrected the DRM problems, since, as has been already widely broadcasted across the internet, the books are still completely unprotected. For example, buy Twilight on the App Store via iTunes, go into your “/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications/” folder, and unzip the “Twilight.ipa” file (which is just an insecure zip file). The book is stored in the file ending in .sqllite, which is an open source and unencrypted database. Just download any SQLLite client (from http://www.sqlite.org) and you can extract the book (and, if you were unethical, e-mail it to all your friends).

The publishers probably should have reconsidered laying off all their staff that was capable of doing technical due diligence on vendors like ScrollMotion. Any high-school dropout could have seen that their claims of doing any sort of DRM were not to be trusted.

I tried this out and it the content is, indeed, completely unprotected. On a Mac, you can extract the whole book with one long command entered from Terminal.app:


mkdir ~/Desktop/UnprotectedBook && cd ~/Desktop/UnprotectedBook && curl http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite3-3.6.7-osx-x86.bin.gz | gunzip > sqlite && chmod +x sqlite && unzip -p ~/Music/iTunes/Mobile*Applications/Twilight.ipa Payload/*.app/*.sqlite > db.sqlite && ./sqlite db.sqlite "select c2paragraphText from ParagraphFTS_content" > UnprotectedBook.txt && open UnprotectedBook.txt


Viola! Unprotected book!