

Adobe offers free applications for Microsoft Windows and Mac-based operating systems, and a Linux version is in the works. The software combines an iTunes-like interface with support for Flash SWF for audio and video enhancement as well as DRM and EPUB.
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On June 19, the San Jose, Calif.-based company announced the release of its new ebook software, Adobe Digital Editions, a product that Bill McCoy, general manager of Adobe’s epublishing business, calls "the centerpiece of Adobe’s expanded digital publishing strategy." Major companies such as Sony, Random House, and HarperCollins are already working with Adobe’s new ebook technology Digital Editions will be integrated into the Sony Reader product line, and publishers are taking advantage of Adobe’s DRM capabilities and the new International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF EPUB XML-based open standard for text reflow, a technology that McCoy believes "has the potential to be at least as important to the future of portable documents as today’s PDF."Īdobe Digital Editions is a lightweight (2.5 MB) application that allows users to read and to manage any ebook or other digital publication that is supported by the PDF- or XML-based files.

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