This might break the option to use Adobe DE on Linux. The current version does not properly work with Wine, only a specific older on (1.7? There are by now different reports on WineHQ, but it just didn't work on the system I tested). I migrated the family computer to Ubuntu (ran XP before), and to support the prior bought DRM-protected Epubs, Adobe DE in that old version got installed and locked.
Later on, I removed the DRM from that books, but still, DE was necessary to download the epubs if the online shop provied just the download files, not the epub itself. If the new DRM will change any of that Workflow, Adobe-DRM-protected epubs will just not be readable on Linux anymore - as they are not providing a Linux-Version of their software.
Or does someone know a .asm-Downloader? Calibre will surely support breaking the now DRM soon, so that part might be fine.
What a fucking mess. How are ebooks supposed to be used by the public, if it is even for me complicated to have a proper workflow which does not mean the ebooks we buy are less usable than a real book (which costs the same)? How shall this system work if they don't even support Linux?
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This might break the option to use Adobe DE on Linux. The current version does not properly work with Wine, only a specific older on (1.7? There are by now different reports on WineHQ, but it just didn't work on the system I tested). I migrated the family computer to Ubuntu (ran XP before), and to support the prior bought DRM-protected Epubs, Adobe DE in that old version got installed and locked.
Later on, I removed the DRM from that books, but still, DE was necessary to download the epubs if the online shop provied just the download files, not the epub itself. If the new DRM will change any of that Workflow, Adobe-DRM-protected epubs will just not be readable on Linux anymore - as they are not providing a Linux-Version of their software.
Or does someone know a .asm-Downloader? Calibre will surely support breaking the now DRM soon, so that part might be fine.
What a fucking mess. How are ebooks supposed to be used by the public, if it is even for me complicated to have a proper workflow which does not mean the ebooks we buy are less usable than a real book (which costs the same)? How shall this system work if they don't even support Linux?