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Originally Posted by mrmls
I am not writing about shopping on Sony stores. But there are many other stores where one can buy Adobe DRM epubs.
In one of them I bought a DRMed epub using GNU/Linux computer without any "proper" software and I was able to download that epub and transfer that book without any problems. Maybe for other shops there are other and more restricted policies, I haven't tried all world's stores. But at least for 1 in this world it worked.
Just to be extra clear: I did activate my reader using a Windows machine once and only once.
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Normally when you download a book from one of these sites, you only get a link to a .ascm file which you then need to drag and drop into Adobe Digital Editions to complete the download.
If the site let you directly download an EPUB book file I suspect that it was because -
a) You used a registered copy of ADE to do the download in Linux (which, does work, with minor issues as I said in my
previous post)
b) The site did not require DRM on that particular title, or just doesn't use DRM at all ([If you like SF,
Bean books is an example of a publisher with great titles with no DRM)
c) If the book DID have DRM, and you were able to download it directly without using ADE, then it was because you had previously set up an account with that site, and had downloaded previously using ADE or the Sony Library, so the site was able to register and store your Adobe Key. Without access to this key, it would be impossible for a site to send you a properly DRM encrypted book that would decode and read on your SONY.