DRM & Digital Editions

I am trying to transfer an eBook from Doccuments to Adobe Reader it is protcted by DRM and I need to get it to open in Digital editions after i click on the OK button on the message window nothing happens except that digital editoins opens up but no sign of eBook nor will it open up in reader XI or in the earlier 9.5 or 10.how do I get access to this book?I get no error messages.
OS is Windows XP SP 3

There are lots of bugs in ADE2.0, especially on XP. Try replacing ADE2.0 with the older but more reliable v1.7.2.
(You can have them both installed at once if you like.)
Version 1.7.2, it is a little difficult to find, available on Adobe site for Windows and for Mac.
http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-editions/kb/cant-install-digital-editions.html
The forum software is sometimes corrupting the link above. There shouldn't be a blank in 'editio ns.html'. The following redirects to the same page: http://tinyurl.com/diged172

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Since Re-activation as suggested by the link above is not working for you, Can you please confirm the following:
The OperatorURL is reachable. ( you can find the operatorURL from the acsm file by opening it in notepad,etc)
And Book is still available on the book-store for purchase.
(If any of first two are not available, you might have to talk to distributor for next action item to get the book. Since you will have record of purchasing the book, (in my opinion) they should provide you the new token for downloading the book)
And please confirm this that you used the same userID for downloading that you used when you first fulfilled/downloaded the book.
(If it is the case, then you have to use the correct userID)
I hope it helps.

Saving a DRM book to pendrive/external disk to later download and read it on personal notebook (with Adobe Digital Editions)

Hello.
I installed Adobe Digital Editions on my mother's personal computer and activated my Adobe ID in order to be able to purchase, download and read DRM books there.
But is it possible to save the DRM books to a pendrive or external hard disk, so that I can "carry them" and later download and read them on my personal notebook (having previously installed Adobe Digital Editions and activated my Adobe ID in the notebook)?
I don't know if DRM books can be saved to pendrives and external hard disks...
Barbara

Incidentally, you do know that you can buy kindle or Nook apps for your ipad? I was assuming you wanted a DE-specific app.
EDIT Actually, those apps are free--you just pay for what you buy through them, if that helps you any.
Incidentally, O'Reilly, my publisher, uses PDF for real galley purposes, although they do create epub editions of their books for distribution. You might want to ask the publishers you work with if there's another format available.

How to add DRM protection to an EPUB so it can only be read with Adobe Digital Editions?

I wish to add DRM protection to our EPUBS and PDF's so that they can only be read using Adobe Digital Editions, so that we can control licensing.

Hi John,
At present, the only places you can buy copy-protected ebooks that are suitable for the Sony Reader are from Sony's own ebook store and from Borders.com. The books you buy from eBooks.com won't work on the Sony Reader.
Please contact our support team direct at help (at) ebooks.com, and tell them what's happened, and they'll be able to help you out.
Sincerely,
Stephen
Managing Director
www.ebooks.com

As this is an adobe DRM protected book you will need to import the book with adobe digital editions to open this book. I USED ADOBE DIGITAL EDITIONS TO UP LOAD THE BOOK TO MY TABLET. HELLP

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To attempt a new chat session...
For the link below click the Still Need Help? option in the blue area at the bottom and choose the chat option...
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service1.html

If possible online translation ebook with acrobat drm protection?; reader I am using is adobe digital edition version 4.0.2.103411

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Set your Computer to work with our eBook provider
1. Download and install Adobe Digital Editions. This software requires Flash.
2. Open up Adobe Digital Editions. It will ask you to activate your software with an Adobe ID.
3. If you create an Adobe ID:
a. You may download the book to more than one computer as long as the computers all
use the same Adobe ID. (Up to 6 computers can be activated using one Adobe ID.)
b. You can transfer your eBooks only to Nooks that are using the same Adobe ID.
4. If you decide to continue anonymously:
a. You will not be able to transfer eBooks to your Nook!
b. You may only download to one computer.
c. You can activate an Adobe ID at any time. However, you may lose the rights to see any
eBooks that were downloaded previously.
5. We recommend that you create an Adobe ID. Follow the steps to do so.
6. Activate your Nook by plugging it into your computer with Adobe Digital Editions open.
7. Adobe Digital Editions will detect your Nook and ask to activate it using the same Adobe ID as
your copy of Adobe Digital Editions. Follow the prompts. (It may take a few minutes for Digital
Editions to see your Nook.)
Getting your eBook on to your Nook
1. Open up Adobe Digital Editions.
2. Plug in your Nook. If you have not previously set it up, Adobe Digital Editions will ask to register
your Nook using the same Adobe ID as your Digital Editions.
3. Your Nook will appear on the left under Bookshelves.
4. To transfer your eBook to the Nook, click on your previously downloaded eBooks and drag them
to the Nook icon. The book will transfer.
5. Unplug your Nook.
6. To find your new eBook, go to My Library.
7. On the touch screen, scroll up until you see My Documents.
8. Your new book will be in My Documents.
9. Enjoy!

How can I properly and COMPLETELY uninstall Adobe Digital Editions 3.0 from my Mac?

OK, so yeah, I *SHOULD* have known better...
A few months back, against my better judgement and without doing the proper due diligence, I tried installing Adobe Digital Editions 3.0 onto the primary drive of my MacBook Pro (running MacOS 10.6.8).
The tell-tail signs:
PROBLEM #1
While there IS readily available "Tech Specs" documentation for the current Adobe Digital Editions v4.0.1 installer for MacOS (which clearly states "Mac OS X v10.8 or later" is REQUIRED), there is absolutely NO indication or similar documentation for supported system software for PREVIOUS versions of Adobe Digital Editions.
Reference URL:
http://www.adobe.com/support/digitaleditions/downloads.html
PROBLEM #2a
Adobe Digital Editions v3.0 for MacOS comes as an installer (which REQUIRES admin authentication to provide root-level access to your computer).
PROBLEM #2b
Adobe "Digital Editions 3.0 Installer" is FULLY launchable under MacOS 10.6.8 (and the installed application will require MacOS 10.7 or later).
PROBLEM #2c
There is NO associated ("ReadMe" type) support document included on the "ADE_3.0_Installer.dmg" disc image and ZERO integrated documentation within in the installer.
PROBLEM #2d
There is NO Adobe "Digital Editions 3.0" UNinstaller either installed as part of the "Standard" installation package OR currently downloadable from Adobe.com.
PROBLEM #3
Adobe's ONLY MacOS solution to "Uninstall previous versions [prior to the current v4.0] of Adobe Digital Editions for Mac OS" are the following instructions:
It's necessary to have administrator privileges to complete these steps.
1. From your user directory, locate /Applications
2. Drag the digitaleditions1x5 folder to the Trash, and empty the Trash.
Reference URL:
http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-editions/kb/cant-install-digital-editions.html
PROBLEM #4
Adobe's "What are my contact options?" page indicates BOTH "Chat (within 90 days of registration)" and "Forums" as available "Basic Support" options for Adobe "Digital Editions" software for "Download, install, setup" help, however, "Forums" is the ONLY available choice under "Contact options" for on Adobe's "Contact Customer Care" page (for "Download, install, setup" help with Digital Editions).
Reference URL:
http://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?step=ADE_downloading-installing-setting-up_s tillNeedHelp
PROBLEM #5
The ONLY available "Basic Support" option for "How-to's & troubleshooting" help is the Adobe Forums...and this is an example of the type nonsense response (then followed by NON-response) that one might receive there:
https://forums.adobe.com/message/6570142
[NOTE: After MUCH searching I did, however, manage to find a potentially interesting "Let us know how we’re doing" link (under the "Our support promise" link found on the "What are my contact options? page). I am going to send them a brief message along with a link to THIS post and hope for the best.]
Reference URL:
http://helpx.adobe.com/contact/what-contact-options.html
PROBLEM #6
While I did NOT realize this prior to my attempting to install Adobe Digital Editions, apparently it would require me to "activate" my computer with an Adobe ID.
[NOTE: This information IS included in the readily accessible FAQ (and I am sure it's also found in the installer integrated software "License"), however, this is a MAJOR "feature" of this software and could be presented MUCH more prominently as an installer integrated "ReadMe" screen.]
Reference URL:
http://www.adobe.com/solutions/ebook/digital-editions/faq.html
...and, as an added bonus, there is a SIGNIFICANT "spyware" issue with this software discussed in further depth here:
http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/10/06/adobe-spying-users-collecting-data-eboo k-libraries/
As an experienced and life-long Mac user, I really SHOULD have known better and I did have second thoughts almost immediately, but by then it was TOO LATE!!!
So, now I have this TOTAL crap, super duper DRM software that required root-level permission to install (AND I couldn't even run this installed v3.0 copy under my preferred MacOS 10.6.8 if I wanted to...but, of course, I now have ABSOLUTELY NO desire to ever use this software again), and I just want to COMPLETELY remove all traces of it from my computer!
A pretty thorough Google search yielded several so-called "solutions" that were as bad or EVEN worse than the very limited "official" resources found directly from Adobe!
Any actual, real working solutions would be VERY greatly appreciated!
Thank you SO MUCH for your time and consideration in reading!!!
Sincerely,
aadams77

Hmm, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. I searched my entire drive for "digital editions", and this is the whole thing:
/Applications/Adobe Digital Editions 3.0.app
/Users/user/Library/Caches/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app
/Users/user/Documents/Digital Editions
/Users/user/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.plist
/private/var/db/receipts/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.bom
/private/var/db/receipts/com.adobe.adobedigitaleditions.app.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.DigitalEditions.plist
The application itself, three small files scattered in your user account, to unimportant installation receipt files, and another preference file in the root Library folder. Removing those should remove everything related to version 3, which is what I have installed.
Where I substituted "user" above (for the three entries of /Users/user/...), replace that with whatever the actual name of your user account is.
Edit: I double checked the installer using a small app that sorts out every file in an installer, and where each item would normally be installed. The main app is literally the only item in the installer. The receipts are created by the OS per the installer's data, and the other minor preference files are created when the app is first run. There is nothing else.

Adobe Digital Editions Quit Unexpectedly

Hi there,
I can't open my book from Abode Digital Editions. When I go to Adobe Digital Additions Library and click on the book I purchased, a box pops up saying, "Adobe Digital Editions quit unexpectedly. Click Reopen to open the application again. This report will be sent to Apple automatically." Then when I click on the "Reopen" button, I am automatically taken back to the Adobe Digital Editions Library where the cycle repeats itself. I have seen multiple reports of this same issue from other users in this form. I have called Adobe for support and can't seem to find an answer so far. I would LOVE to have this sorted out so I can use my Kobo and read the books I have purchased. Anyone out there in internet land who can help me, I would appreciate this sooooooo much.
Thank you!

Same problem here. I downloaded and installed ADE 4.0.3 just to check out a library e-book using DRM on my Mac OS X Yosemite. ADE crashed every time I attempted to open that book with a memory address exception. I had no problems opening the default book that comes with the reader though. Looked at iTunes reviews of ADE and Mac users have been complaining about this serious bug since February! What a major fail by Adobe.
I took the suggestion in this thread of downgrading to ADE 3.0. I still had the library's e-book in my library but was now getting a E_ACT_NOT_READY error each time I tried to open it. After some googling, I figured out I needed to reset my authorization token by doing Command-Shift-D. But after regenerating my authorization token, I got a E_LIC_ALREADY_FULFILLED_BY_ANOTHER_USER error. Now I think I need to get the library to reset the authorization token for the book since my token has changed. I dropped them a note informing them Adobe Digital Editions 4.0.3 doesn't work on Yosemite and asked them to reset the authorization. I've removed the book from my ADE library and will hopefully be able to download and start reading it next week.

How to add author's name to existing entry in Adobe Digital Editions

I have several books listed as Author: Unknown in my Adobe Digital Editions. After removing these titles from Digital Edition's library, I have added the authors names to a file with these books, and then added them into Digital Editions, but it still shows Author: Unknown.

I suspect you need to change the author somewhere in the metadata.
Are these DRM books or non-DRM?
If they are DRM, it may be difficult to change.
If they are non-DRM, try using the free Calibre ( http://calibre-ebook.com/ ) instead of ADE;
it has more editing features and is generally a better written program.

When I open a book in Adobe Digital Editions, I get the following error: Error getting License. License Server Communication Problem: E_ADEPT_DOCUMENT_TYPE_UNKNOWN:

Hi, I bought an e-book in PDF format that uses Adobe DRM. I've created an account on adobe.com and tried downloading the book in Adobe Digital Editions on the Mac (as well as the bookstore's e-reader--logged into my Adobe account--on an Android device).
It tries to download the book but get's the following error:
Error getting License. License Server Communication Problem:
E_ADEPT_DOCUMENT_TYPE_UNKNOWN:
Has anyone come across this? Any guidance would be most appreciated!
Thanks!
Tony

Please refer to the KB article, Public Knowledge Base

How to install adobe digital editions on android device (zt pad)

how to install adobe digital editions on android device (zt pad)

I don't think ADE will itself run on Android.
You need to install an app such as Bluefire (free) which supports DRM epub books.
Make sure you authorise it with the same AdobeID you use on the PC or to buy books.
You can get books on the PC with ADE, download them, 'sideload' the .epub files to the tablet using a file manager such as Windows Explorer, and read them on Bluefire.
For library books, the Overdrive app (free) should allow you to borrow, doanload and read books with no need for a PC or ADE.

Adobe Digital Editions 2.0

I have just downloaded the digital editions 2.0, and when I opened it to add books to my Kobo Touch, the library dropdown button is not present. I am confused, how do I fix this?

Do you mean [1] the Library dropdown does not show up at all, or [2] that there is nothing there about the Kobo Touch?
For non-DRM books, I think you should just be able to copy them to the Touch using Windows Explorer or similar.
For DRM, direct file copy should also work (at least, it does on many eReader devices),
You can only read the copied books once the Touch has been registered to the appopriate AdobeID,
but that registration is only needed once.
There have been quite a few issues with ADE2.0 which were not present in 1.7.2,
it may be that ininstalling V2.0 and installing that will work better for you.
Version 1.7.2, it is a little difficult to find, available on Adobe site for Windows and for Mac.
http://helpx.adobe.com/digital-editions/kb/cant-install-digital-editio ns.html
also for PC at http://www.tucows.com/preview/853736/Adobe-Digital-Edition-For-EBooks

Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.1

Bonjour à tous
Comment enregistrer sur son compte Client Adobe le Produit:
Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.1
il est absent de la liste des produits téléchargés ET installés .
AMICALEMENT, MERCI D'AVANCE !

Je ne suis pas encore sûr à 100% exactement ce que vous vouliez dire et si je réponds la bonne question ...
Comme il s'agit d'un produit «gratuit» vous n'enregistrez pas avec Adobe.
Cependant, parce qu'il est utilisé pour lire des livres électroniques de DRM, vous ne devez enregistrer votre compte Adobe avec ADE (Digital Editions)
Pour ce faire, l'utilisation Bibliothèque / Aide / Autoriser l'ordinateur dans ADE, et entrez votre compte Adobe email / mot de passe.
Parfois, l'enregistrement se confond et vous obtenez des messages d'erreur obscurs:
dans ce cas, vous devez radier (ctrl-shift-D, cmd-shift-D sur Mac) d'abord, puis essayez à nouveau d'enregistrer.
~~~
As it is a 'free' product you do not register it with Adobe.
However, because it is used to read DRM eBooks, you do need to register your Adobe account with ADE (Digital Editions)
You do this use Library/Help/Authorize Computer within ADE, and enter your Adobe account email/password.
Sometimes the registration gets confused and you get obscure error messages:
in this case you need to deregister (ctrl-shift-D, cmd-shift-D on Mac) first, and then try again to register.

Can you print to PDF with Adobe Digital Editions?

I have Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0 on a PC I use at school. I am able to print documents to Adobe PDF and create them into a PDF by choosing Adobe PDF instead of a printer.
I have purchased an eBook that opens in Adobe Digital Editions. The book allows unlimited printing.
Is it possible to print parts of the book to PDF and create a PDF instead of printing the pages out onto paper?
Thank you.

No, this is expressly disallowed. If you think about it, that would allow you to circumvent the DRM protection and the publishers therefore forbid this.

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