Thread: Books from which UK/US stores can be read by standard Adobe Digital Editions client?
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Old 07-07-2013, 11:08 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Jen_Smith View Post
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.

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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