Download and reading e-Books

I need a solution

http://www.elib.se/shop/faq.asp?shop=10#fraga_22

"If you receive a file EBX.EDT instead of your e-book, this is usually because you have forgotten to install the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader. (Note! This is not the same program as the Adobe Acrobat Reader)."

Thanks Alan Pope, that solved my question.

No actually it hasn't. What version of Acrobat eBook Reader must I download?

Does the Linux version of Adobe Reader even support the DRM features in the ebook?

What happens if you try a different file? Is the file actually corrupt?

Firstly I downloaded AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1.i386.tar.gr.part. When I instal it it says Archive type not supported. I don't know what this means

You shouldn't need to install from the adobe site, acrobat reader is in the Ubuntu multiverse software repository

See these pages for how to install acrobat:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AcrobatHowTo
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Repositories

With all due respect Alan please take me through the entire process. I am not very technical. All I need is to view ebooks from the netlibrary.

I have a username and password to access netlibrary resorces.
I have loaded ubuntu on my desktop and the e-books requires Acrobat reader 5 to later version which I have on my flash disk.

How do I download the Acrobat eBook Reader and Acrobat reader on my PC. All am reqesting is step by step procedure.

I have gone into the urls that you send but cannot make sense of what I should do.

If you have a moment please help me.

Sure. It's quite a lot to take in for a new user.

1) Enable the multiverse repository: to do this go to System --> administration --> Software sources/preferences (it is named differently in different releases).
2) Install acrobat: to do this go to System --> administration --> synaptic package manager. In the search box look for "acroread". When found, right click it and choose "install", hit apply on the toolbar and it should download and install the reader.

Once installed you should find it on the menu (sorry I dont know where it sits on the menu) under Applications. You can then open it, and use that to open the ebooks you download.

let us know how you get on.

Let you know in a moment. Thank you

I have successfully loaded acrread and when I try to download an ebook it says It has not detected Adobe Reader or Acrobat Reader version 6.0.

How do I load this?

Is this inside your browser you get that message?

if so, install (using the same method as before - with synaptic) the package "mozilla-acroread".

This should add a plugin to your browser so you can read the ebooks.

Hi Alan
I can't find mozilla-acroread

I found it. Let me install and will let you know

Morning Alan
I still cannot open e books after installing all the required packages. Below is a string of characters I get when open e books. What does it mean and what else must I install?

−
 <ebx-transfer-data>
<x-ebx-version>0.7</x-ebx-version>
−
 <minversion>
<glassbook>152</glassbook>
</minversion>
−
 <entries>
−
 <entry>
<voucherurl>http://acs.netlibrary.com/fulfill/ebx.etd</voucherurl>
<orderid>933531095582714</orderid>
<bookid>product_id:105378</bookid>
<title>Sheep Nutrition</title>
−
 <nonce>
m71/RI77HoXuNePlDxDwJa8edoW0r3ZvIRh8nFXh/0wlLOReLQKeKWjYaSHE
</nonce>
<type>product_id</type>
<identifier>105378</identifier>
−
 <bookfileurl>
http://acs.netlibrary.com/Media/ebx_product_id_105378.pdf
</bookfileurl>
</entry>
−
 <etd-entry>
−
 <fulfillurl>
<baseurl>http://acs.netlibrary.com/fulfill/ebx.etd</baseurl>
<param>action=lend</param>
<param>orderid=933531095582714</param>
<param>bookid=product_id:105378</param>
</fulfillurl>
</etd-entry>
</entries>
</ebx-transfer-data>

Hi there
Is there a solution to my problem? Please see details

Instead of clicking on the link of the eBook, try the right mouse button and then 'Save as', and save the file on your HD. Then open the file from you Adobe Reader. If this works, the mime-type/extension for this format is not associated with the Acrobat eReader and therefore might not start it automatically.

It does not work.
When I right click on the file I don't see the save as option.
The save as option is available when I double click on it and it shows 3 options 1. Open with; 2 save to Disk and 3. Do this automatically for files likes this from now on.

I selected the save to disk option and the file appears on the desktop as ebx.etd.

When I point at the document I see Resource String not found

I think txwikinger was suggesting that when you see the ebook in your web browser, to right click and save as, not after you have already downloaded it.

The option I get on my browser is the save page as. I don't get the save as option. In other words it does not allow to save before dowloading. You have to download first and save as later

Ok. I seem a little confused. As Alan pointed out I meant to save the file on your HD and open it from the Acrobat Reader.

Open Acrobat Reader

The use the open file button or menu and open your file.

Is that the point when you get the raw text you described above? Or from which application do you try to open your eBook ?

Perhaps I need to ask the following questions: Is it possible to download and open e-books using Ubuntu version 6.10.?
If it's possible how is it done?
Is there something I am doing wrong?
I am asking these questions because I was first required to load Adobe Reader and then Acrobat e-Book reader and still e books can't open.

As I write this, the file is sitting on my Home folder as a ebx.etd. file.

When I right click and open with Acrobat Reader it says Acrobat Reader could not open ‘ebx.edt’ because it is either not supported file type or because the file has been damaged(for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn’t correctly decoded).

Mind you this is the first question I posted seeking a solution.

We are of course making an assumption that Adobe acrobat (a closed source proprietary product that we have no access to the source code of) can open the file that you have been given.

Does the copyright on that ebook prevent you from redistributing it? i.e. could you make the file available on some free web hosting for us to test in various readers so we can see what the problem is.

The issue for us is twofold, we dont have access to the file you do, and we cant see the code of Acrobat so cant tell what it is doing or even trying to do.

I hope you appreciate that makes it difficult for us to support you.

I asked the admins to redact your last comment because you put a username and password in it, which I figured you wouldn't want the whole world to see.

In firefox can you please visit

about:plugins

Which should list all plugins on your browser and see if the acroread plugin is there, and paste the relavent section titled Adobe Acrobat if it is?

Note: Only Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Flash player.

The firefox plugins does not help. As I still can't open the ebooks.

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Alan Pope
Sent: 19 April 2007 03:13
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: Re: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

    Status: Open => Answered

Alan Pope proposed the following answer:
I asked the admins to redact your last comment because you put a
username and password in it, which I figured you wouldn't want the whole
world to see.

In firefox can you please visit

about:plugins

Which should list all plugins on your browser and see if the acroread
plugin is there, and paste the relavent section titled Adobe Acrobat if
it is?

Note: Only Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Flash player.

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Can you please check whether the plugin is installed as per my previous message?

Visit about:plugins in your browser and follow the instructions in my previous message.

No matter what one does there are some ebooks that can't be opened in Ubuntu.

I thought with the latest Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn the problems with reading and downloading ebooks would be resolved but it looks like nothing has been done with regard to ebooks. Perhaps there is someone who wants to prove me wrong?

I thought with the latest Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn the problems with reading and downloading ebooks would be resolved but it looks like nothing has been done with regard to ebooks. Perhaps there is someone who wants to prove me wrong?

need a solution

I am still waiting for an answer to my question posted on 2007-04-24 and again 0n 2007-05-25. All I want to know is whether the latest Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn has the ebook reader functionality and that is all. In other words is the 7.04 capable of reading ebooks?

I am still waiting for a reply to the question I asked you twice.

"In firefox can you please visit

about:plugins

Which should list all plugins on your browser and see if the acroread plugin is there, and paste the relavent section titled Adobe Acrobat if it is?

Note: Only Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Flash player."

Can you try installing the acroread-plugins package which is in the "medibuntu" repository. To do this you will need to add the medibuntu repository:-

sudo wget http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/sources.list.d/edgy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Then update:-

sudo apt-get update

Then install the acrobat plugins:-

sudo apt-get install acroread-plugins

Restart your browser and try again to read the ebooks.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-adobe-pdf-reader-with-plug-in-for-mozilla-firefox.html indicates you may also need the package "mozilla-acroread" which you can install (once you have done the previously mentioned steps) with:-

sudo apt-get install mozilla-acroread

Then restart your browser. Firefox should then be able to open pdfs directly in the browser window, and *should* be able to read your ebooks too.

I am still trying your suggestions. Please bear with me.

Regards
Les

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Alan Pope
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:57 AM
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: RE: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

    Status: Open => Answered

Alan Pope proposed the following answer:
I am still waiting for a reply to the question I asked you twice.

"In firefox can you please visit

about:plugins

Which should list all plugins on your browser and see if the acroread
plugin is there, and paste the relavent section titled Adobe Acrobat if
it is?

Note: Only Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Flash player."

Can you try installing the acroread-plugins package which is in the
"medibuntu" repository. To do this you will need to add the medibuntu
repository:-

sudo wget http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/sources.list.d/edgy.list -O
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Then update:-

sudo apt-get update

Then install the acrobat plugins:-

sudo apt-get install acroread-plugins

Restart your browser and try again to read the ebooks.

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I have tried your suggestions and it does not work. In fact I see that
your suggestions are not different from the ones you offered when I was
experiencing same difficulties with 6.10.

This is my crisis: I have affiliated with Netlibrary to access some
ebooks on their website. Using windows I am able to download these
resources by activating DRM.

Now my question is; can I be download ebooks using 7.04 from Netlibrary?
I couldn't with 6.10 hence I want to find out if the latest version is
capable or not?

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Lesetja
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 10:45 AM
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: RE: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

    Status: Answered => Open

You are still having a problem:
I am still trying your suggestions. Please bear with me.

Regards
Les

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Alan Pope
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:57 AM
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: RE: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

    Status: Open => Answered

Alan Pope proposed the following answer:
I am still waiting for a reply to the question I asked you twice.

"In firefox can you please visit

about:plugins

Which should list all plugins on your browser and see if the acroread
plugin is there, and paste the relavent section titled Adobe Acrobat if
it is?

Note: Only Adobe Acrobat, not Adobe Flash player."

Can you try installing the acroread-plugins package which is in the
"medibuntu" repository. To do this you will need to add the medibuntu
repository:-

sudo wget http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/sources.list.d/edgy.list -O
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

Then update:-

sudo apt-get update

Then install the acrobat plugins:-

sudo apt-get install acroread-plugins

Restart your browser and try again to read the ebooks.

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Ok, the problem I have is that you're not telling me what bit of the process is not working, just that it "isn't working". Have you installed the plugins as I suggested? Can you open PDF files inside firefox? Do they open within the firefox window using acrobat? What is the result of visiting about:plugins and searching for Adobe in the list?

You have to appreciate that i am attempting to help you but with limited information coming back from your direction, it's very difficult.

You keep asking the same questions over and over without answering mine.

please help me to help you.

The Linux version of Acrobat reader does not read secure ebooks. You need to install the windows one.

First install wine (this lets you run some windows sotfware)
sudo apt-get install wine

Then go to the adobe website and download version 7 of acrobat reader for WINDOWS

D NOT TRY VERSION 8 - IT IS BROKEN

Then use wine to run the acrobat file.
wine acr...

Goodmorning and apologies for behaving impatiently.
I am one of the 1000's that are new to linux. Where do I get wine? May you please take me through the whole process.

You can find detailed instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

Hi
I am will try and will get back to you in a moment.
Les

-----Original Message-----
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Cesare Tirabassi
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:51 AM
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: RE: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

    Status: Open => Answered

Cesare Tirabassi proposed the following answer:
You can find detailed instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

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Hi
I have installed Wine and downloaded version 7 of Acrobat Reader and is
currently on my flash disk. How do I install it using wine. Will it
enable me download ebooks?

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Cesare Tirabassi
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:51 AM
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: RE: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

    Status: Open => Answered

Cesare Tirabassi proposed the following answer:
You can find detailed instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

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I have installed Wine and downloaded version 7 of Acrobat Reader and is
currently on my flash disk. How do I install it using wine. Will it
enable me download ebooks?

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Lesetja
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:27 PM
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: RE: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

You gave more information on the question:
Hi
I have installed Wine and downloaded version 7 of Acrobat Reader and is
currently on my flash disk. How do I install it using wine. Will it
enable me download ebooks?

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Cesare Tirabassi
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:51 AM
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: RE: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

    Status: Open => Answered

Cesare Tirabassi proposed the following answer:
You can find detailed instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

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Here is a link to the wine user's guide:

http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index

Before doing anything you may want to look at chapter 3: Configuring Wine.

After that you should have a look at chapter 4. In particular to install your program you should copy it from your flash drive to your ~/.wine/drive_c directory and use the command (I assume the adobe installer name is foo.exe, change it to the one matching your software):

wine c:\\foo.exe

Thanks for all your tips, all suggesting I read chapter that and chapter
this to resolve my ebook problems. I am now very confused but not lazy
to read the suggested chapters in order to get a solution to download
secured ebooks using Ubuntu. I am confused because I don't know what you
will say next because it looks as if one solution leads to another
question instead of a solution to the problem.

My question was/is: Using ubuntu 7.0 will I be able to download secured
ebooks? The answer was yes on condition I install wine and use wine to
run M/s application.

I have read some bit on installing wine but find difficulties in running
downloaded third party packages.

Is there perhaps some simple linear tips on how to download ebooks using
Ubuntu?

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Lesetja
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 3:21 PM
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: RE: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

You gave more information on the question:
I have installed Wine and downloaded version 7 of Acrobat Reader and is
currently on my flash disk. How do I install it using wine. Will it
enable me download ebooks?

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Lesetja
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 1:27 PM
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: RE: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

You gave more information on the question:
Hi
I have installed Wine and downloaded version 7 of Acrobat Reader and is
currently on my flash disk. How do I install it using wine. Will it
enable me download ebooks?

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of
Cesare Tirabassi
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 11:51 AM
To: Frans Pitjeng
Subject: RE: [Question #4964]: Download and reading e-Books

Your question #4964 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/4964

    Status: Open => Answered

Cesare Tirabassi proposed the following answer:
You can find detailed instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine

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I can try to help you out with Wine, but on ebooks I wouldn't be able to tell you.
By reading what the others have told you above, I understand that ebooks (at least those you have bought) are using a proprietary format which can only be read by proprietary software.
If this proprietary software is not available on Linux and you cannot install and use it with wine, than I'm afraid you can't read those ebooks on Linux.

Quote from Adobe on the topic of "Linux Reader unable to act upon .etd files":
"In order to open .etd files, you require the eBooks plugin for the Adobe Reader. However this is not shipped with the Adobe Reader for Linux.
You would presently need to use the Windows version of the Reader in order to view the files."

Now a snipped quote from the: US Department of Justice Antitrust Division:
"The Antitrust Division promotes and protects the competitive process ... through the enforcement of the antitrust laws.
The antitrust laws .. prohibit predatory acts designed to achieve or maintain monopoly power."

Personally, I think we really need to start making some loud noises about these issues to stop this discrimination.
According to the US DOJ we have the law on our side.