Comments on: Adobe Digital Editions reader is less bloated than PDF-based predecessors, but beware of DRM and Flash gotchas: Serious eBabel issues

By: Does Apple Want To Be King Of Ebooks? «

Does Apple Want To Be King Of Ebooks? « — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:28:03 +0000

[...] also has Adobe Digital Editions, which can read .epub files. It’s also being ported to the Sony [...]

By: Odonata

Odonata — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:13:13 +0000

I always liked this Flash plug-in for converting files

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Idiotprogrammer » Blog Archive » Ebook Creation Links — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:35:32 +0000

[...] Adobe Digital Editions–PDFs optimized for pocket devices: teleread review [...]

By: anon

anon — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:53:04 +0000

A cheap and (let me say) propriety way of attracting people to your website. Sensationalizing by using keywords like “Trojan” is nothing new for people in want of attention. A fair analysis that outlines issues is more acceptable to me.

By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:29:58 +0000

Ho. Interesting timing by Adobe. Doing the FUD Shuffle, perhaps? But I don’t see anything here that would prevent anyone — especially me! — from buying a Sony Reader.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:16:31 +0000

Interest pointing, Larry, but you can do the same thing without a reliance on just one vendor vendor. Addressing one of these issues, I’ll add an SVG reference. Thanks. David

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:38:34 +0000

With Flash in the picture, you have possible audiovisual content as well.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:28:42 +0000

Many thanks for your note, John. Adobe’s use of language such as “Flash-based” suggest that the Reader and Flash are intertwined even though, yes, it can read OEBPS books without Flash.

My concern is not so much over display on various browsers but the fact that Flash is controlled by one company, Adobe. Of course I highly applaud Adobe’s interest in a cross-platform approach—far, far superior to Microsoft’s Windows-centric approach.

And meanwhile, since I know you’ll be eager to address problems of the kind I mentioned, I need to add that my monitor’s model number is AL1916. I’ll stick that fact in the main post.

Regardless of our philosophical differences on formats, the best of luck with your new product. It is progress regardless of the negatives.

Thanks,
David

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:17:31 +0000

“With Flash in the picture, we’re really talking in practice about another proprietary format”

Are you frightened of any particular problem? I might be able to help.

(There’s now a proven way to display across multiple operating systems, multiple browsers, and increasingly multiple formfactors, but if there’s a way it may not work for all, then I’d like to know so it can be addressed, thanks.)

jd/adobe