Tea eReaders Use Non-Adobe DRM on Pocketbook Hardware
Tea is a French ereader startup that has gotten little attention outside of France, and it is about time that changed. This several year old startup recently signed a deal...
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Adobe Digital Editions Now Available for Android
Adobe DE is available on MACos, Windows, and iOS, and now also Android. Some time last summer Adobe quietly launched a new version of its epub-reading app, Adobe Digital Editions. Available in Google...
The Oldest Version of Adobe Digital Editions No Longer Works With OverDrive’s Library eBooks
If you are using Adobe Digital Editions 1.7, and are having trouble downloading ebooks from OverDrive, I think I can tell you why. I can also tell you how to...
Adobe Acrobat Reader Can Scan Docs With Your Smartphone’s Camera
Do you know how you can use note-taking apps like Evernote and OneNote to take a photo with your smartphone and then annotate it? Now you can do the same with...
The Zero-Gravity Toilet Of Adobe DRMed ePub
Editor’s Note: Mike Cane originally wrote this post way back in 2008. I am reposting it in 2016 because even though eight years have passed, the problem still exists. Earlier today...
New Pernicious Adobe Epub DRM Found in the Wild
In early 2014 Adobe announced a new type of ebook DRM which had the dual properties of being unbreakable as well as incompatible with existing ebook readers and apps. After initially...
Apple Gets Year-End 318 Million Euro Tax Bill from Italy; Adobe Plugs Yet Another Flash Security Hole
The year appear to be ending with a repeat of some of the same old stories we have heard all year: tech companies don’t pay their taxes, and Flash really...
Adobe Digital Editions Now Comes With Free Bonus Bloatware
Adobe isn’t making much money off of its Epub-reading apps, but they’ve found a new way to cash in. A reader has tipped me to the news that Adobe is...
Adobe Reader for iOS and Android Updated, Renamed Acrobat DC
For the past several years Adobe has been bundling more and more paid services into its consumer-level Adobe Reader app, and today they finally erased the last distinction between the...
Microsoft Gets Serious About Web Standards: Adobe to Contribute to Project Spartan
Long a contributor to open source browser engines, Adobe is going to be getting into the guts of Project Spartan. Microsoft announced on Monday that Adobe is going to be one...
Adobe Digital Editions 4.0.3 Update Adds MathML, Better Support for Audio and Video
Adobe’s rolled out a new updtae this week for its flagship Epub app today. According to the changelog, the update makes a couple changes to the interface, fixes a bug with...
Adobe Digital Editions Launches on the iPad
Sources have been telling me for about 3 months now that Adobe was going to release a Digital Editions app for the iPad, and that app showed up in iTunes yesterday. And...
Adobe Updates Flash Player to Fix Critical Vulnerability
Adobe may have deprecated Flash in favor of HTML5, but that doesn’t mean everyone has stopped using it nor have hackers stopped looking for vulnerabilities. Adobe released a new critical security...
EFF Confirms Reports of Adobe’s Spying
Yesterday the EFF weighed in for the second time on the Adobe spying scandal, offering a belated confirmation of both my initial report as well as a confirmation that Adobe...
Adobe Updates Digital Edition, Stops Sharing User Info With the Internet
Adobe rolled out a new update for their Digital Editions Epub app today, and I have good news, bad news, and okay news. This is a relatively minor update to the month-old...