Thread: Not Happy with Purchased ebooks. Is this normal?
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Old 11-13-2008, 01:12 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by stephenfsnow View Post
I noticed that the Narnia books from BooksOnBoard are in fact protected PDF files and not ePUB as they lead you to believe.
The BooksOnBoard Format Selection Guide is wrong. Adobe Digital Editions ebooks (e.g. the Narnia books) from BoB are Secure PDF ebooks, and they have a red Adobe logo icon. At BoB Secure ePubs are called Adobe EPUB and their icon is a smaller red Adobe logo with a book in front. See, for example, The Gate House by Nelson DeMille which has all the ebook formats that BoB supports.

In defence of BoB, calling Adobe Secure ebooks "PDFs" is true but misleading because they can't be read by most PDF readers (including those from Adobe). They should update their Format Selection Guide though.

EDIT: I see =X= has the icons in post #16
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