Reading Korea DRM e-books

[orbiter]

Hi,

I've purchased a few books from Korean online bookstore Aladin but I cannot read them on my Nook Colour due to the Korean DRM protection. Does anyone know a way around this? Or is there an alternative bookstore I should purchase my books at e.g. YES24, Kyobo, Bookcube, YP, Interpark...?

Or will I have to buy one of those Korean e-readers...?

Please help! Thanks!

[UrSunshine]

Please check out cafe.naver.com/ebook  ...

If you go to the Nook section, you'll be able to search solutions to your question, or even post your questions to Nook experts there. 

Good Luck.

[BruceMcF]

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orbiter wrote:

Hi,

I've purchased a few books from Korean online bookstore Aladin but I cannot read them on my Nook Colour due to the Korean DRM protection. Does anyone know a way around this? Or is there an alternative bookstore I should purchase my books at e.g. YES24, Kyobo, Bookcube, YP, Interpark...?

Or will I have to buy one of those Korean e-readers...?

Please help! Thanks!

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The thing to look for is whether they use "Adobe Digital Editions" or "ADE" ~ then the Adobe Digital Editions software can convert it to B&N format and load it into a Nook Color.

I found a one year old page that claims that the Korean online ebook stores that use ADE are: www.booktopia.com
www.mobibook.co.kr
www.nuutbook.com
www.book2.co.kr
www.piuri.com

... I do not read Koean hangul so I can't check it out for myself, and don't know how many of those are still in business. The only things I know about Korea are what I see in historical K-dramas, and since they are soap operas that have to hold onto an audience, I expect there's a lot of slip between story and reality.

[roustabout]

There may also be a font issue -- for Chinese characters, you need to edit the file and add in a CSS statement about using the alternate character set.

This is fairly easily done in Calibre once DRM is removed from a book.  I don't know if it works with a book that still has DRM applied or not.  (Such books can be worked with somewhat in calibre;  you can add extra CSS to them, it turns out, even though the main content is DRM'ed.  So it may be possible to add the necessary CSS to support the character set even if you can't remove the DRM.) 

Take a look for some posts by Tom51 on working with Chinese character sets -- he has a fairly good explanation in the nook tablet support forums, for instance.