Yeah, not only does Adobe provide a DRM solution, seems like their reader doesn’t even properly work.
Another reason to dislike Adobe: I’m using Linux and reading on an old Kindle Paperwhite i recently put KOReader on. Since i don’t want to support amazon anyway I’m trying to buy books directly from authors, or if that doesn’t work, from other book stores. The problem? Most ship the books using “Adobe DRM”, meaning you get a *.acsm file, supposed to be opened with some Adobe tool to download the book you bought. This tool is of course not available on Linux, and even if it were, why not just provide the file directly?
There is acsmdownloader which works fine, but again, i have to jump through hoops to download my bought book (my bad for actually wanting to support authors i guess…). Sadly, this format of ebook delivery seems to have become the standard nowadays. Thank you Adobe…
Thank you to Tor Books for actually providing their files without DRM, though! At least one publisher seems to be doing it right.
Never heard of it, i’ll check it out, thank you!