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Adobe Digital Editions for Surface RT

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December 29, 2012
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I would like to purchase a Microsoft Surface tablet to replace my netbook. The Surface runs the Windows 8 RT operating system, which is different from Windows 8. Executable files (such as the Adobe Digital Editions installation EXE) cannot be run on RT -- apps must be downloaded from the Microsoft Windows App Store. Will Adobe make a version of Adobe Digital Editions that will run on the Surface RT?

Thanks,

Cara

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Correct answer Jeffrey_A_Wright

Cara we do not currently support Windows RT with Adobe Digital Editions. You can find the current system requirements listed at http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices.

You may also want to reference Digital Editions Supported Devices - http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices for a list of supported devices and applications.

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sjpt

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Try ythe apps "DL Reader" or "DReader".

Authorize them with your Adobe ID and you should be able to use the RT.

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ek1780

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I tried all of them before I visit that forum... With DL Reader or DReader (as well as ebook.de) I am able to read DRM protected ebooks (epub) but NOT protected pdfs (neither bought ones nor borrowed from library).

During the last years I was always able to read those files with Adobe Digital oder Adobe Reader (both not available for RT, Adobe Touch is not able to read those files). As a simple user, using Windows, I cant understand why there are always those difficulties with new running systems.... I simply dont want to bother with that.... *sigh*

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sjpt

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As a simple user, using Windows,

Unfortunately, you aren't really using Windows, you are using something Microsoft marketing chose to call Windows to confuse people.

Also, with it still being a minority platform developers aren't rushing to support it.

The only way I know round this is to use a DRM stripper such as epubee BEFORE you deauthorize the device.

I do NOT advocate using such code to get around the valid limitations placed on a DRM book.

However, where the problem arises only because of the ineptness of Adobe's ADEPT DRM infrastructure and its implementation (or lack of it),

such a measure is totally justifiable.

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Roebü

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In case this thread is still active . . .

The eBook.de READER app allows Adobe Digital Editions books to be viewed on a Windows 8.1 tablet. The interface is in German but it does seem to work ok.

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trainmore

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I found a basic reader, DL Reader, which uses your Adobe ID.No highlighting, bookmarks,etc. Only other way is to purchase a program which remoes the DRM restriction.

Hopefully DL reader will be uograded at some time.

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sjpt

Inspiring

DL Reader does not appear to run on Windows RT, only a full Windows 8 system.

Only other way is to purchase a program which remoes the DRM restriction.

epubee is free and does a good job.

DRM stripping should only be used where legally permitted,

or in some cases, where clearly ethically justified because the absurdities of Adobe's inept ADEPT DRM infrastructure prevent use within the intended ts&cs.

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trainmore

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I have it loaded & running. Loaded from RT store. Only displayed covers once I had opened the book.

Sent from Windows Mail

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Cara_Hart_42Author

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Update for those interested:

The Kobo app can be used to read eBooks -- including DRM -- acquired through Kobo.
The Overdrive app can be used to download and read eBooks -- including DRM -- acquired through Overdrive, which includes those I download from my local library. (It will not open my Kobo books or Google eBooks.)
I have not yet found an app in the Microsoft Store that will allow me to put DRM books onto my Sony Reader.

I would still love to see Adobe port Digital Editions to this platform. It is my favorite applications for consolidating my eBooks, as well as copying them to my Sony Reader.

Cara

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Anonymous

I have found that the best way to manage content for my sony e-reader is to install the sony reader software (which is on the reader) onto my laptop (just connect them and it wants to do it) and purchase content (including Kobo etc) via the laptop, and keep the library there (sony reader software opens a my books folder in my documents) and load them / delete them on the e-reader as desired. If the laptop has your DRM registration, all content transfers just fine, I have found. Still waiting for equivalent sony app for surface tablet on Windows RT, and their is a Kobo app, but it has limited functionality, though they say they are working to improve this.

Regards,

Neale

Assoc. Prof. Neale Draper

CEO,

Australian Cultural Heritage Management

Archaeology Department, Flinders University of South Australia

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Anonymous

This is all pussy-footing around a really serious issue. Windows TR Surface tablets are a mainstream device that is here to stay, and every Microsoft and Adobe customer has a reasonable expectation that mainstream e-products they have bought - such as Adobe DRM-protected e-books from mainstream e-book sellers/publishers - will NOT be locked out from being used on such a device. Having lumbered the world of e-books with the chastity belt of DRM, Adobe has a direct responsibility to make sure that its much-touted universal solution to copyright protection on e-books DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST or DISADVANTAGE those of us who have a Microsoft Surface Tablet instead of an Ipad or an Android device.

It is NOT good enough for Adobe spokespersons to tell us - as on this forum - that it is too expensive or too much trouble, or that we should not buy this mainstream device but go with that because they can't be bothered living up to the hype about Adobe Digital Editions that heas lured e-book publishers into using the platform.

Now I have to complain to certain e-book publishers that they have let down the customer by publishing only in DRM-PDF format instead of something civilised and truly transportable between a legitimate customer's portable devices, such as Epub. And I'm talking about expensive academic and technical e-publications at $50 or more each, not $2.99 bodice-rippers!

Shame on you, Adobe!

Associate Professor Neale Draper,

Australia

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sjpt

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Will the Overdrive app for Windows8 do the job of reading DRM eBooks.

It looks like it from the blurb.

http://www.overdrive.com/News/New-OverDrive-App-Taps-Power-of-Windows-8

iPads and android tablets don't run ADE.

DRM and non-DRM files can be transferred to read on those tablets with appropriate app installed and registered on the tablet.

Assuming Overdrive does indeed work on an WinRT tablet, isn't that the same as for other tablets?

And I think Bluefire intend to make their app available.

You can't expect an RT to replace a laptop/desktop/netbook with full Windows/Mac OS, only to replace a tablet.

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Anonymous

Thanks very much for the suggestion. I checked the Overdrive media console webpage, and the Windows Surface RT OMC app does not support Adobe DRM documents, sadly. I think the solution has to come from Adobe, who created this digital document platform and persuaded mainstream publishers to adopt it.

Yes, a device like a Surface RT is not a full laptop, it is a tablet - and one of the primary functions of a tablet is as a reader for digital documents!

Thanks very much though to sjpt for an inspired suggestion!

Assoc. Prof. Neale Draper

Jeffrey_A_Wright

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Cara we do not currently support Windows RT with Adobe Digital Editions. You can find the current system requirements listed at http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices.

You may also want to reference Digital Editions Supported Devices - http://blogs.adobe.com/digitalpublishing/supported-devices for a list of supported devices and applications.

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Cara_Hart_42Author

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Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, you did not answer my question. I am aware that Adobe Digital Edition is not currently supported on Windows RT.

My question is, does Adobe plan to support this platform?

Thanks,

Cara

Jeffrey_A_Wright

Community Manager

We would have to completely rewrite the software to work on an ARM based processor. We are always continually evaluating additonal platforms to release for Adobe Digital Editions. I would recommend looking at the supported devices page as was previously offered in message #1.

If you have not already purchased your Windows RT device you may want to hold off as I believe a version running the full version of Windows 8 will soon be available.

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