e_adept_core_key_scramble

 Does it come out well as an e-pub after updating Calibre this time? I came out well before that, but after updating, I can't dedrm, T T, I changed the version to the new version of 10.0.9, why can't I? Is there anyone who can help you? 

Thanks to all those who persisted in trying to get the problem fixed and thanks for letting other page readers know it is now resolved...though not retroactively, for those who did not receive refunds (and who cannot use Google Play's ereader to read those problematic purchases.)

I just bought a 99 cent ebook from a favourite author listed in my Bookbub email and I was able to download the book in Adobe Digital Editions.

I'm having this issue with a book purchased from Google Play Books on Oct 3rd.  Google has told me to get in touch with Adobe and their chat bot pointed me to this thread.  😞

So I decided to give it a try again and bought a book. And this time the acsm file worked! So I bought a couple more and they all opened in ADE. 

a "community expert" on the google community forums about this issue gave an update here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/297795204?hl=en&msgid=302162235

Text is: 

"hi there

I've been in back and forth contact with Adobe and Google for about a month now and still no luck on this. 

Adobe emailed me asking for my Adobe ID and today they emailed me again asking for my password to fix the issue, has anyone else had Adobe ask for their password? 

I was able to get a refund using this exact message in the request - hope it helps others get refunds until google resolves.  Also hope google resolves as it is the easiest and way to buy and download epubs: 

I can not download this file. I regularly download books through google play and this is the first time I experienced this. 100's of users have also reported issues with their book downloads in the last 3 weeks. Thread here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/digital-editions-discussions/e-adept-core-key-scramble/td-p/14866261 and https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/297795204/can-t-open-google-play-epub-in-adobe-digital-editions?hl=en

It seems like this is the solution. (Reference: https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/297795204?hl=en)

Now, personally, I wouldn’t go down this route, but if someone were to try, the steps would likely be as follows:

First, you’d need to download and install Calibre: https://calibre-ebook.com/download.

Next, head to Preferences, then to Get Plugins. Search for “DeASCM” and install that plugin. Once that’s done, restart Calibre. After that, in Preferences -> Plugins, find and select the DeASCM plugin. You’d log in with your Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) account and choose the appropriate version.

Then, you’d download the “DeDRM” plugin from here: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases. Make sure it’s the latest version.

After unzipping that download, go back into Calibre and navigate to Preferences -> Plugins -> Load Plugin From File. Locate the unzipped folder and select “DeDRM_plugin.zip” to install. Restart Calibre again after confirming.

At this point, the final step would be to drag and drop the ASCM file you’ve downloaded from Google Play Books into Calibre. It should convert to a DRM-free EPUB automatically.

I wouldn’t recommend doing this myself, but I imagine that’s the general process.

Not sure if someone else posted this already (I didn't read all 7 pages of replies :D), but when I download the PDF version of the book from Google Play, I can open it in Adobe Digital Editions. The error e_adept_core_key_scramble only happens for me when I try to open the epub.

After all this to-ing and fro-ing and figuring out how calibre could kinda sorta get us out of trouble, I had an epiphany last night as I was rechecking my library to make sure I had downloaded a copy of every book. This whole process has been a serious time waster.

The calibre suggestions were a gold mine of good news. I have used it on and off over the years, usually to munge the metadata on books that were amenable to that activity. I noticed last night that there's an intermittent bug of some kind. I could download a few .acsm files and process them through calibre. But then, off on its own program, calibre would not remove the DRM for the next batch of books. When I redownloaded the acsm files for those books, and tried again, the DRM was stripped off as expected.  Sometimes.  Other times, I might have go through the process yet again.  At the end, I prevailed.

Suddenly, I was just sick of it. My head exploded, the last neuron fired, I cursed the people that put us in this position.  At some point, "time is money" becomes a truth. I'd rather have my lips pecked off by a chicken than buy another book from Google. As some TV character used to say, "live long and prosper." And read like there's no tomorrow.

Thanks to all who helped me.

mp