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ePUB DRM

robotto — GMT

Any ETA on ePUB DRM for the Jetbook Lite? I've been reading ebooks on my Palm m500 for years but have now decided to upgrade to a newer reader with a larger screen. I have been on the fence between the Jetbook Lite and the Nook waiting for each to mature with software updates.

Having ePUB DRM on the Jetbook Lite would seal the deal as it would provide access to library books, and Barnes and Noble (who it seems is changing over to ePUB).

green — GMT

Current version of Jetbook-Lite supports only DRM PDB files.

ECTACO is working on the new version which would support ePub DRM and will provide updates shortly.

Best Regards,

Phil - technical support

Ectaco INC,

JeePea — GMT

Is there any update on when new firmware for the Jetbook Lite that will enable it to read Barnes and Noble drm epub documents will be released? While there are other sites that sell B&N drm pdb files such as fictionwise and ereader, they do not have nearly the selection as B&N. And the fact that a version of the Barnes and Noble Nook for 149$ is soon to be released with wifi capability makes the Jebook Lite look less and less attractive. This shortcoming needs to be addressed quickly if the Jetbook Lite is to remain a viable product.

ePUB DRM

robotto — GMT

Dunno. I was waiting for Adobe ePUB DRM and decided to take one last look this morning. Still nothing, not even an estimated date.

In the meanwhile, the Wi-Fi only Nook at $149 announced yesterday has proven irresistible, so I went ahead and ordered it this morning.

green — GMT

You may read DRM ePub files from www.ereader.com and www.fictionwise.com on Jetbook-Lite 0.15d

Best Regards,

Phil - technical support

Ectaco INC

ePUB DRM

kmrowley — GMT

[quote=robotto]Dunno. I was waiting for Adobe ePUB DRM and decided to take one last look this morning. Still nothing, not even an estimated date.

In the meanwhile, the Wi-Fi only Nook at $149 announced yesterday has proven irresistible, so I went ahead and ordered it this morning.[/quote]

I went and looked at the nook wifi (and downloaded the manual) - from what I saw/read the nook isn't very friendly toward books not bought from B&N and loaded directly to the device. Any files (books) that you add manually, you have to access from a single list of books, and there apparently isn't any way to sort the list. Which seems to me, if you have a whole lot of non-nook content, that looking for and finding something would be a bit of a pain. Not sure this is true - would be interested in hearing what your experiences are.

I love being able to sort my books the way I want like you can on the JBL and would only consider another brand if it was able to do something similar.

ezeechair — GMT

I am sorry to say but I have found and installed on my jetBook (regular jetBook) not the jetBook lite. Firmware .035a.
When I purchased my jetBook in Feb 2010 it came with FW .34 & had no DRM support. Now with FW .35a I have ADE DRM for ePUB/PDF as well as "Text Flow on/off" support for PDF reading and active TOC in both ePub and PDF provied the doc has active TOC built in.

You lose search/find as well as Dictionary support within ePub.

I have it installed and it works greate - big improvement for PDF reading as well.

This firmware is not listed on their Website and I have yet to be notified via email of it's existence. What gives?

adreamer — GMT

[quote=ezeechair]I am sorry to say but I have found and installed on my jetBook (regular jetBook) not the jetBook lite. Firmware .035a.
When I purchased my jetBook in Feb 2010 it came with FW .34 & had no DRM support. Now with FW .35a I have ADE DRM for ePUB/PDF as well as "Text Flow on/off" support for PDF reading and active TOC in both ePub and PDF provied the doc has active TOC built in.

You lose search/find as well as Dictionary support within ePub.

I have it installed and it works greate - big improvement for PDF reading as well.

This firmware is not listed on their Website and I have yet to be notified via email of it's existence. What gives?

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Any ideas on when a corresponding jetbook lite firmware would be available? We are hearing a "coming soon" message for around 6 months now...

Jerry — GMT

[quote=adreamer][quote=ezeechair]I am sorry to say but I have found and installed on my jetBook (regular jetBook) not the jetBook lite. Firmware .035a.
When I purchased my jetBook in Feb 2010 it came with FW .34 & had no DRM support. Now with FW .35a I have ADE DRM for ePUB/PDF as well as "Text Flow on/off" support for PDF reading and active TOC in both ePub and PDF provied the doc has active TOC built in.

You lose search/find as well as Dictionary support within ePub.

I have it installed and it works greate - big improvement for PDF reading as well.

This firmware is not listed on their Website and I have yet to be notified via email of it's existence. What gives?

[/quote]

Any ideas on when a corresponding jetbook lite firmware would be available? We are hearing a "coming soon" message for around 6 months now...[/quote]

Coming soon.... Just Kidding!

No but seriously i am told an ETA of 2-3 weeks. Don't shoot the messenger (me) if it takes longer. This e

philsexton — GMT

Coming soon.... Just Kidding!

No but seriously i am told an ETA of 2-3 weeks. Don't shoot the messenger (me) if it takes longer. This estimate was from one of our product managers. [/quote]

Phil, of Ectaco, has just answered an email of mine, telling me that firmware 0.15g for the jetBook lite supports epub files.
I have a B&N epub file on my SD card. Its title shows up, but when I try to open it I get only a blank page. No page numbers or any other indication that there is anything there.
Perhaps you can tell me how to open it and read it??

Jerry — GMT

[quote=philsexton][quote=Jerry]Coming soon.... Just Kidding!

No but seriously i am told an ETA of 2-3 weeks. Don't shoot the messenger (me) if it takes longer. This estimate was from one of our product managers. [/quote]

Phil, of Ectaco, has just answered an email of mine, telling me that firmware 0.15g for the jetBook lite supports epub files.
I have a B&N epub file on my SD card. Its title shows up, but when I try to open it I get only a blank page. No page numbers or any other indication that there is anything there.
Perhaps you can tell me how to open it and read it??[/quote]

Hi philsexton,

Right now only jetBook regular (beta version 0.35e) can read these B&N ePub files. From what i understand these are password protected by B&N. The jetBook Lite can read ePub just not password protected ones....yet.

As i mentioned above we should have an update soon so the jetbook Lite can do this, i was told 2-3 weeks but maybe sooner.

Hope this helps!

Adobe Digital Editions DRM/epubs & Jetbook Firmware

kazbloom — GMT

Having read many posts, I have now updated my firmware as directed and I have copied my epub file from my computer (which has already been added as an item on the shelf in the computers digital editions, and it was from the My Digital Editions folder in my documents that it was copied from) as supplied by my local library. Which in theory should now work.

My book with a little icon with <> in the middle of it, appears in my list on my jetbook and so I start rejoicing, select the book to find.......
a blank page

I can't see to find any other instructions to follow.... help me please. I have been researching these files etc for the last 2 hrs and am now going slightly insan(er).

I don't want to buy a sony (hate em) or a nook (you what?) or any other thingy-ma-jig - I am a simple soul and LIKE the way Jetbook turns the pages without flashing on my eyes like others. If i can just get my library e-books working i will be a happy chappy.

Thanks.....

ezeechair — GMT

So now there is a .35e for the Regular jetBook and it supports B&N's ePub!

What happen to b,c,d?

I have installed .35a which supports ADE ePub/PDF DRM and adds Text flow for PDF documents. I heard about .35a through another forum.

You state that .35e supports B&N's ePub - will it also support ADE's ePub/PDF DRM or do we end up relinquishing that format for B&N's ePub DRM?

This is all getting quite confusing!

What I do know is that prior to .35a the regular jetBook had no DRM support, no TOC support for ePub and no Text flow support for PDF.

After .35a the regular jetBook finally has support for ADE DRM both ePub and PDF, TOC works in both ePub and PDF and there is now Text Flow on/off support for reading PDF docs. Great update.

ADE DRM is widely supported by various vendors and Public Libraries.

B&N ePub DRM is supported by B&N and their affiliates but not by your Local Library (I believe).

Anyone who has a regular jetBook and has not upgraded to .35a will

Adobe Digital Editions DRM/epubs & Jetbook Firmware

Jerry — GMT

[quote=kazbloom]Having read many posts, I have now updated my firmware as directed and I have copied my epub file from my computer (which has already been added as an item on the shelf in the computers digital editions, and it was from the My Digital Editions folder in my documents that it was copied from) as supplied by my local library. Which in theory should now work.

My book with a little icon with <> in the middle of it, appears in my list on my jetbook and so I start rejoicing, select the book to find.......
a blank page

I can't see to find any other instructions to follow.... help me please. I have been researching these files etc for the last 2 hrs and am now going slightly insan(er).

I don't want to buy a sony (hate em) or a nook (you what?) or any other thingy-ma-jig - I am a simple soul and LIKE the way Jetbook turns the pages without flashing on my eyes like others. If i can just get my library e-books working i will be a happy chappy.

Thanks.....[/q

Jerry — GMT

[quote=ezeechair]So now there is a .35e for the Regular jetBook and it supports B&N's ePub!

What happen to b,c,d?

I have installed .35a which supports ADE ePub/PDF DRM and adds Text flow for PDF documents. I heard about .35a through another forum.

You state that .35e supports B&N's ePub - will it also support ADE's ePub/PDF DRM or do we end up relinquishing that format for B&N's ePub DRM?

This is all getting quite confusing!

What I do know is that prior to .35a the regular jetBook had no DRM support, no TOC support for ePub and no Text flow support for PDF.

After .35a the regular jetBook finally has support for ADE DRM both ePub and PDF, TOC works in both ePub and PDF and there is now Text Flow on/off support for reading PDF docs. Great update.

ADE DRM is widely supported by various vendors and Public Libraries.

B&N ePub DRM is supported by B&N and their affiliates but not by your Local Library (I believe).

Anyone who has a regular jetBook and has not upgraded to .35a will not lose anything by doing the .35e as they had no DRM support anyways.

Will those who have upgraded to .35a still be able to read and buy ADE DRM supported ebooks once they upgrade to .35e?

From what I have heard the jetBook-lite supports B&N DRM for pdb files.

*****The jetBook web site still reflects old FW and Patch with no explanation of what benefits these updates give the client.
***** The above comment is in error as they have updated their website.

Update -- the website has changed and it does reflect the latest FW for both JB and JBL but it still doesn't tell you what new features are being added by applying the FW. Ther is no mention of DRM support for the JB on the website. They still do not mention Html as a suppo9rted file format. There is just a vague mention of bug fixes.

John[/quote]

Hey ezeechair,

Thanks for the question, i think some intermediate versions 0.35b 0.35c were not officially released and were for internal purposes only.

I believe from now on the jetBook 9(JB-5)should support ADE DRM.

Hope this helps!

kazbloom — GMT

Jerry,

Its an ADE epub file got from South Ayrshire council library, using the ".ascm" key. I borrowed two different books from the library and currently can't get either one to work and I completed the .35d firmware upgrade.

The epub file does appear in the index list, it just doesn't open....

Thanks for any help you can give

Karen

Jerry — GMT

[quote=kazbloom]Jerry,

Its an ADE epub file got from South Ayrshire council library, using the ".ascm" key. I borrowed two different books from the library and currently can't get either one to work and I completed the .35d firmware upgrade.

The epub file does appear in the index list, it just doesn't open....

Thanks for any help you can give

Karen[/quote]

Hey Karen,

Thanks for the question. I was told the newest release 0.35d does not support password protected versions of ePub. However we are testing versions right now that do we even have one released on our beta testing thread on the forums. [url]http://www.ectaco.com/ectaco-posts/list/19996.page[/url]

If you are tech savvy you can try to download this 0.35g version [read all warnings before you do as it is in the testing phase]. If you want to wait the official release should be a few days a way i believe.

Hope this helps!

kazbloom — GMT

The support chaps told me to go to release .35a as that definately supports ADE epub files.

I have now done that, and I now have a different error "Failed to Open File", so I guess that is progress from a blank screen....

I can also confirm that when I read the book on my PC and check the item info in Adobe Digital Editions, the books in question do have the permissions "can be read on any device until 28 July 2010"

I guess I will keep trying, I might as well try the g (beta) version, I have tried everything else and I remain an insommniac until I get something to read again at night lol

Cheers
Karen

Numbr6 — GMT

[quote=kazbloom]Jerry,

Its an ADE epub file got from South Ayrshire council library, using the ".ascm" key. I borrowed two different books from the library and currently can't get either one to work and I completed the .35d firmware upgrade.

The epub file does appear in the index list, it just doesn't open....

Thanks for any help you can give

Karen[/quote]

Does the book you're trying to read on the JB still have the .acsm extension or does it have an epub or pdf extension? If it is still *.acsm then you need to open it with ADE and it will download the book from your library and store it in a *.epub or *.pdf format. That is the format the JB should read. If you're trying to load a book with an acsm extension into the JB, I don't think that will work.

Jerry — GMT

[quote=kazbloom]The support chaps told me to go to release .35a as that definately supports ADE epub files.

I have now done that, and I now have a different error "Failed to Open File", so I guess that is progress from a blank screen....

I can also confirm that when I read the book on my PC and check the item info in Adobe Digital Editions, the books in question do have the permissions "can be read on any device until 28 July 2010"

I guess I will keep trying, I might as well try the g (beta) version, I have tried everything else and I remain an insommniac until I get something to read again at night lol

Cheers
Karen[/quote]

Hey Karen,

The older versions, starting with 0.35a i think, can play ADE ePub but not ones that are protected with the DRM lock (digital rights Management).

I believe 0.35e (and later) can play these DRM'ed eBooks but i have not tested it myself. We should have an official release for this soon.

[quote=Numbr6]
Does the book you're trying

rock_doctor — GMT

The .acsm file is only a download ticket that tells Adobe Digital Editions that you can download that file from the server. Once you download the .acsm file then you need to download Adobe Digital Editions, install and register it to that computer. Open the .acsm file in Adobe Digital Editions and it will download the actual book to your computer. Once the book opens in ADE look on your computer, in your my documents folder for a folder called "My Digital Editions", in this folder you will find the ePub file of the book. I do not know if you can transfer the ePub file to your JBL and have it open. Good luck.

jetBook-Lite

philsexton — GMT

Has anyone successfully used a DRM protected epub file on their jB-L?
Borders tells me that their books will open on my jB-L but I simply get a blank screen. If I try to use Calibre to change the file to a mobi, I am informed that the epub file is DRM protected and that Calibre cannot reformat.

jetBook-Lite

Jerry — GMT

[quote=philsexton]Has anyone successfully used a DRM protected epub file on their jB-L?
Borders tells me that their books will open on my jB-L but I simply get a blank screen. If I try to use Calibre to change the file to a mobi, I am informed that the epub file is DRM protected and that Calibre cannot reformat.[/quote]

Hey,

DRM protected ePubs will not work on the JBL yet. I am told this update is on its way in another 2 weeks or so but i do not have an official release date yet.

jetBook regular can play ePub DRM books in its newest beta version seen [url="http://www.ectaco.com/ectaco-posts/list/20016.page"]here.[/url]

Hope this helps!

philsexton — GMT

It would appear that, if we can get Adobe Digital Editions to recognize our ereaders (whether jetbook or lite) we can put epub files onto them under ADEs "Bookshelves".
Has someone looked into this?

philsexton — GMT

Has anyone tried upgrading their jB-L firmware using Aluratek's latest?

philsexton — GMT

I notice that there is new firmware (16) for the jB-L but it is an executable file instead of the old zip file. How to use it?

Jerry — GMT

[quote=philsexton]I notice that there is new firmware (16) for the jB-L but it is an executable file instead of the old zip file. How to use it?[/quote]

Hey,

To use the .exe file just double click on it. Most PC's will ask you "do you want to run this program?" Click "yes" or "run". Then you should see a screen to extract the files on the program. Extract the files to a known location (desktop is fine). Then you can move these files to your SD card and proceed with the firmware update procedure.

Hope this helps!

philsexton — GMT

Thanks, Jerry.
Will v016 allow reading DRM epub files?

Jerry — GMT

[quote=philsexton]Thanks, Jerry.
Will v016 allow reading DRM epub files?[/quote]

Hey,

No not yet, from what i'm told that is another 2 weeks away or so. I have no official notice of the release date, this was just an approximation by a manager.

Hope this helps!