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Originally Posted by superstitious
Im a newbie in the file formatting and all. I found a couple of free books at fictionwise in the multi-format. I then chose to download them in ePub. They both downloaded as compressed zip files. How do I make these read on the ADE software? Do I need to extract them somehow? Thx.
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Probably either the browser or the web-server thought it knows better and changed the extension.
There are quite a few so called container formats which are based on zip. What happens is that the browser / web-server checks the first 256 bytes of the file, notices that the content look a just like a zip file and then arbitrarily changes the extension from ebup, utz, jar, whatever to zip.
I say browser / web-server because it only happens in specific combinations (Best guess: Unix web-server using /etc/magic and Internet Explorer just being a smart arse). Use a different browser and the problem might go away.