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ADE is a pain in many regards and I avoid purchasing ebooks infected with that flavor of
DRM. Normally I can find the same material available with one of the other, more curable
infections. I agree with "ICabbages" that DRM is a fatally flawed encryption scheme,
they have to give out the decryption key, and that it is a matter of obfuscation. Still
they can make it hard enough to cause people to avoid the issue altogether. Hopefully,
enough people will wise up and avoid purchasing ebooks infected with that DRM scam.
The ebook retailers that have catered to the Mobile market, still report greater sales for
ebooks in the .pdb format. As long as that remains the case you can expect to find
someone offering the new current books in that format. The "Secure eReader" DRM
scam has been reliably disinfected for a long time now. The B&N ePub uses basically the
same DRM, and can be disinfected the same way. Great strides have been made in
making the disinfection of the formats used by Amazon into a process even the most
rabid technophobe can handle.
Adobe has the business ethics of BP or GE under Immelt, they are all bad actors in the
free market and since I very much support the free market I do what I can to avoid
providing them any support. I hope they treat you better than they have the great
companies they acquired and then locked up their software, to keep it off the market.
They are certainly an "Evil Empire" in the audio, video and graphics industry.
Luck;
Ken
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