How Adobe is making big moves while no one's looking

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It's a good article, useful.

The only thing is, there are dark substances in this that you are not talking about. And Adobe _is_ talking about it, in dark, clear language that should be reported.

Last night, Adobe's 'Digital Editions', the reader for quite a number of books I paid good money for, refused to work. It insisted that I download the next version, and said clearly that it refused to work until I did.

Well, I complied. And reached a dark black screen, after the installation. Soon enough this derived to be my firewall refusing correctly that the new binary phone home. I allowed it, but then looked further.

On their website, they said a number of things:
- this edition 'fixed bugs' in DRM - I might say, resulting in a very long delay each time the reader starts now.
- this version didn't have advertisements (!) but future Readers would (!!!).
- So for my books, to read them in the future, I will have to view advertisements. Can you imagine anything less desirable? But Adobe is very clear and very firm.

I paid for those books. The previous Readers, all within Adobe Reader, have worked.

What possible reason but misaligned greed can Adobe have to force a comic-strip advertising Reader on all of us who bought our books at full retail price, usually within cents of paper, so that everyone involved already profited handsomely?

Naturally I would wish you to go after them for this. And hope you responsibly do.

Kind regards

Posted by: Narr vi   Posted on: 02/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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