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Originally Posted by valkyriesound
Help me.. I'm confused. ePUB and adobe DE are the same or different formats?
Thanks!
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It's easy to be confused considering the way these companies use these terms.
The short answer is, NO, ADE is not a format.
The long answer...
ADE or Adobe Digital Editions is a piece of software that will read ePub and PDF file. ePub and PDF are formats that each define a documented method of how to mark up text and graphics. Both are actually supposed to be free to use without any royalty, even though Adobe owns the PDF specification... they have put it out there royalty free (well except for MS to use, long story).
Some people also state that readers have ADE on them. I don't think that is strictly true. Adobe has and SDK, I think it is official called the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK. This SDK allows licensees to use it. The SDK includes an ePub viewer, a PDF viewer including the ability to read files protected with the Adobe Adept DRM by the Adobe Content Server v4. For more info see here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/readermobile/.
That Adobe Mobile Reader SDK must be licensed by any company that wants to implement it on their device. So, while the ePub format is freely open to use, the Adobe SDK certainly is not.
You will see some ebook stores say that one of the formats of their ebooks is "ADE"... that usually means ePub protected by Adobe DRM. As I said, this does confuse people.
I hope that answers your question.
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