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07-07-2013, 10:32 AM | #1 |
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Books from which UK/US stores can be read by standard Adobe Digital Editions client?
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https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...6&postcount=16 If I understand correctly, Adobe Digital Editions is a standard software that can read DRM EPUBs from many stores, correct? So, precisely, which UK and US stores support reading their DRMed books from Adobe's client directly? The reason I am asking is because it seems that getting the EPUB file out of Adobe's client (for my purposes - Alf) seems to be pretty standard and painless and I can chose UK and US e-book stores based on their compatibility with Adobe Digital Editions. Yes, I know: only if price is not a cent cheaper on Amazon. But if not cheaper, I would just buy the EPUB. |
07-07-2013, 11:03 AM | #2 |
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As far as I know, ADE reads all epub books, because epub is Adobe's invention, and ADE is the other 'half' of the package, if you like.
I buy epub books from Kobo usually (used to be Booksonboard until they went kaput). I have been known to use Waterstones, but they're usually more expensive. |
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ePub certainly is not "Adobe's invention". It's owned by the International Digital Publishing Forum. ADE won't read all ePub books. It reads a subset of the ePub 2 standard, with perhaps the odd ePub 3 feature thrown in, but, to name but a couple of things it won't do, it has no support for either right-to-left or vertical writing systems (RTL is an ePub 2 feature, vertical an ePub 3 feature). And that's not even mentioning incompatible DRM systems, such as Apple's ePub DRM mechanism. |
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07-08-2013, 10:22 AM | #4 |
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Everywhere except Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble as far as I know. (And B&N is arguably even more friendly with Alf - you don't need a client, you can just download the file from their website.)
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DRM'd B&N books can be read from ADE directly, although as you say you don't use it for downloading them.
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Now as we finished the off-topic part, could you address my original question?
Many thanks. Last edited by avid01; 07-18-2013 at 05:03 AM. |
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