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Adobe Digital Editions Now Available for Android

27 January, 2017 // 7 Comments

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 [Read More ...]

The Oldest Version of Adobe Digital Editions No Longer Works With OverDrive’s Library eBooks

27 January, 2017 // 5 Comments

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 fix it. Why Sometime in late November or [Read More ...]

Adobe Acrobat Reader Can Scan Docs With Your Smartphone’s Camera

17 November, 2016 // 0 Comments

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 Adobe Acrobat Reader app. Adobe [Read More ...]

The Zero-Gravity Toilet Of Adobe DRMed ePub

2 November, 2016 // 14 Comments

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 Mike Cane pointed [Read More ...]

New Pernicious Adobe Epub DRM Found in the Wild

17 May, 2016 // 5 Comments

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 planning to [Read More ...]

Apple Gets Year-End 318 Million Euro Tax Bill from Italy; Adobe Plugs Yet Another Flash Security Hole

30 December, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 needs to go away. That the first can happen [Read More ...]

Adobe Digital Editions Now Comes With Free Bonus Bloatware

31 July, 2015 // 11 Comments

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 now bundling Norton Security Scan with the Adobe [Read More ...]

Adobe Reader for iOS and Android Updated, Renamed Acrobat DC

7 April, 2015 // 8 Comments

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 two apps. I got [Read More ...]

Adobe Digital Editions 4.0.3 Update Adds MathML, Better Support for Audio and Video

12 February, 2015 // 5 Comments

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 deauthorized computers, [Read More ...]

Adobe Digital Editions Launches on the iPad

29 January, 2015 // 3 Comments

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 like any new app, it could [Read More ...]

Adobe Updates Flash Player to Fix Critical Vulnerability

26 January, 2015 // 4 Comments

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 on [Read More ...]

EFF Confirms Reports of Adobe’s Spying

1 November, 2014 // 6 Comments

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 has updated Digital [Read More ...]

Adobe Updates Digital Edition, Stops Sharing User Info With the Internet

23 October, 2014 // 17 Comments

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 Epub app, and the good [Read More ...]

Adobe Responds to ALA on Spying Scandal With Fictitious and Misleading Statements

14 October, 2014 // 5 Comments

The American Library Association reported yesterday that Adobe has responded to the ALA's concerns about the recent revaluations of Adobe spying on users. You can find the AlA's press release here, [Read More ...]

Adobe Responds to Reports of Their Spying, Offers Half Truths and Misleading Statements

7 October, 2014 // 57 Comments

They may be a day late and a dollar short, but Adobe has finally responded to yesterday's news that they were using the Digital Editions 4 app to spy on users. Adobe hasn't addressed all of the [Read More ...]

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