Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfJulie
If you use the full version of Adobe Reader 7.0 you should be able to use it to read your DRM books (assuming you have activated your computer through Adobe's website). DE is not required, but it is often the default reader nowadays for PDF books. You'll need to completely uninstall DE from your computer first and then you should check to make sure the PDF file association is set to Adobe Reader. You can see what Fictionwise says about this here:
http://www.fictionwise.com/help/adobe_reader_help.htm |
Nice, I'll have to play around with that. I use Acrobat Reader Pro 7.0 on my personal laptop. I experimented with DE on a government laptop since it's the only one I have with internet access right now.
But when I'm back home from deployment, I'll have to experiment.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Nate the great
What about the people whose PDFs stopped working because they had to reinstall the OS? It's happened. What about people whose PDFs stopped working for no other reason than a year had passed since the sale? That's happened.
|
It depends what guarantees the the company gives with the files. If someone is supposed to have the capability to do something with a file and it turns out the person does not have such a capability, then it's false advertisement on the company's part. A person might have to go into the terms & agreements to find this stuff, but there's generally something available specifying what you can do with the files. Most cases I hear about get solved through complaints to the company anyway. It would be terrible customer service to say, "Oh, your PDF stopped working? Looks like you're SOL." The only personal experience I have with needing to redownload DRMed material was when I forgot to backup some tracks purchased from iTunes (purchasing from iTunes is very rare for me, but they had exclusive Barenaked Ladies material I felt I had to get my hands on
) when I reformatted my hard drive. One email to Apple and they allowed me to redownload everything I had ever gotten from them, including all the free promotional stuff and the free tracks I got from the codes on Pepsi caps years ago. I know Fictionwise is pretty obvious with what you can and can't do with their files. Typically, I don't purchase anything that I won't be able to strip the DRM off of. As a consumer, this has worked out pretty well for me and has seemingly saved me a world of hurt. However, I've made bad purchases before and as mad as I've been about it, I never blamed the retailer. I'm usually just mad at myself for not doing all the research I should have. Apparently,
regret is a powerful learning tool, though. I have to say, past unwise purchases have definitely made me a wiser consumer. I don't take parting with my money lightly.
