So Misguided

Via Morgan News

Adobe has released a new e-book software program: Adobe Digital Editions 1.0.

Adobe Digital Editions is available as a free download for Microsoft Windows and Apple systems. And according to the Adobe press release, it already has some industry support.

From Morgan News:

Digital Editions also offers its own support for PDF and XML-based publications. That means it’s already compatible with quite a few existing publications. It also supports Flash, which would allow authors to imbed audio and video. Finally, you would be able to set up bookmarks, do highlighting and make text notes in the publication.

The other interesting component of this is that Adobe’s InDesign CS3 is expected to include an export feature to create the ebooks. Bang zoom. The ebook race is off again.

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Great post Monique!  It’s actually quite interesting to see whether Silverlight or Adobe’s AIR technology will help marketing books, especially when it comes looking inside the book.  I think because the code is so light weight and fast loading there is a great potential for book publishers to make use of it on their websites as it becomes easier and less costly to do (i.e. does not require someone in-house or a contract programmer to setup)

Unfortunately when I installed Digital Editions on my computer, first thing that came up right after the installation was an error ... go figure