eBook Activation Limit

so currently what can we do, dispose our purchased ebooks, can't Adobe reset the ativation number?!!

There should be a solution, plase advise.

Wael

I must correct myself from my August 5 posting. I CAN buy ebooks and read them on multiple machines.... we all can.... just not using adobe's product.

As much as I dislike Microsoft, the MICROSOFT READER w/cleartype allows you to activate up to 6 different machines. So I purchased my ebooks from Simon and Schuster in .LIT format (not .pdf format, mind you!!)..... the books worked fabulously on my desktop and pocket pc.... perfect for my recent trip to Chicago (which is what I was preparing for initially when I purchased the ebook in pdf format from my work location and then couldn't access it anywhere else).... with Microsoft Reader, no traumas activating all my machines (3 at home and a pocket pc), and my machine at work.

I never thought I'd say this when I've always been a fan of Adobe.... but.... WAY TO TO MICROSOFT A+.....

Jim

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38 Borden Ave
Perry, NY 14530

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I would have thought by now SOMEONE from adobe would have cleared this up inthe forums by now. You brought up a valid point. eBooks as it is .......is not exactly breaking any sales records. eBooks are suppose to be attractive to new users.. this will only ensure the end of $$ eBooks.

> If I want to loan my book which I puchased to a friend to read, I can. With an ebook, my friend would have to pay the money as well.

This strikes me as being a very valid criticism. After all, we can lend a friend a CD, a DVD, a VHS, etc., and in theory we should be able to lend an e-book as well. "Real" books still have many important advantages over e-books, in my opinion (portability, lendability, no worries about software/hardware conflicts, etc.).

And they remove my comments that i posted earlier today.

DON'T BUY EBOOKS... ADOBE IS NOW WORTHLESS. I CANNOT EVEN READ AN EBOOK THAT I PURCHASED AT MY WORK COMPUTER, BECAUSE NOW IT'S ONLY VALID "THERE"...

I BLAME AMAZON, THE PUBLISHERS, AND MOST OF ALL ADOBE.

Mary, you said in message 3 that you can re-activate? How?
After my old system died, I just spend more than 2 hours on the phone with various Adobe departments (technical, customer support, unlocking and e-book authorization) AND NOBODY CAN HELP ME GET ACCESS TO MY EBOOKS again.
This was possible in the old e-book reader (2.2), but is no longer supported, they said. A giant leap backwards.

Please prove me wrong!

For the time being, I wrote my books off (in excess of $500) and concluded that Digitial Rights Management does not work. No more e-books for me.

At least you were able to read once.. I can not even get it to activate ONCE. I purchased the eBook from Amazon (they don't do refunds on eBooks) and I can't even download because it cries my Acrobat is not registered. When I attempt to register Acrobat (reader or Pro) it hangs.. never activating. I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling... rebooting.. I'm about to RMA my Acrobat 6 and install PDFfactory.

If you have reformatted your hard drive or you have a new computer, you can call Customer Service to have your activation "reset".

I have already encountered this problem. I downloaded Adobe Acrobat once, then a few days later I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled all my software. When I redownloaded Adobe Acrobat it told me that I couldn't activate it because I had already activated it before. But I keep getting an activation message when I try to download an ebook. I find this highly disconcerting about ebooks. Why would I want to pay for something that I cannot have control over? If I want to loan my book which I puchased to a friend to read, I can. With an ebook, my friend would have to pay the money as well. I don't know about you, but I cannot go around throwing 17 bucks here, 19 bucks there. According to Louise, I cannot even view an ebook which I purchased on another machine. With the recent problem I encountered with Acrobat, I will NEVER buy an ebook because I like to reformat my hard drives often. If I can only download my ebooks 4 times, then they are not worth it.