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Originally Posted by nairbv
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I don't completely understand what DE is... I mean, isn't it just epub? or maybe it's software that plays epub files? epub's cool because it's supposed to be a standard and all, but it's just another file format right? and then the ones adobe sells are encrypted to only work on one computer?
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DE is a replacement for the eBook capability that was being added to the Adobe Reader at one point and then backed out. Adobe decided that merging of the two technologies was a bad idea. DE is nothing but a program. It reads ePub and PDF files but is trying to achieve a eBook motif and the intent is for it to be the only product from Adobe for eBook reading. Today most people read eBooks in PDF with standard Adobe products which aren't optimized for this use.
Having said that ePUB is not connected to DE. There are other readers that can read ePUB and there will likely be readers that will not read ePUB directly but will convert a publishers ePUB document to their internal format. This is how all of the early readers worked. At the publication level there was once compatibility in GEB readers, Microsoft readers, MobiPocket readers and some others. This has subsequently been lost as these companies went their own way. Hopefully ePUB will bring them back together again along with some of the newer players.
Read more about PDF, ePUB and many other topics in the wiki.
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