Find alternate solutions to manage downloads.
Find alternate solutions to manage downloads. Our license is with you, not Adobe. We should not have to give Adobe our employees' data in order for employees to be able to download fulltext books we have licensed from you.
Cindy
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The Ebook Central team has reviewed this idea and this work has been planned on our short-term roadmap. Thank you for your feedback and support.
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While we do recommend using the Adobe Digital Editions app on your Android phone or tablet, we are aware of the recent compatibility issue. Books can still be accessed using Adobe Digital Editions on a desktop or laptop device.
If using a mobile device is your preference, other compatible apps are available on the Google Play Store, including Pocketbook Reader. For more guidance on how to set up Pockebook Reader on your Android device, read this support article: https://support.proquest.com/s/article/Ebook-Central-How-do-I-download-the-PocketBook-Reader-app-on-an-Android-device?language=en_US
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Anonymous
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Our users are reporting problems with ADE. Some users can't download the ADE app because it is not available in the play stores of their smartphones. It seems that the ADE app is too old for the smartphones.
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Jayne Kelly commented
Our users are reporting more and more problems with ADE and there seems to be no way of sourcing help from ADE themselves. Some of our users just won't use ADE at all, which means they can't use Ebook Central ebooks and are asking us to move to other suppliers. Please find an alternative open source option to ADE.
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Anonymous
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Requiring Adobe Digital Editions is a barrier to continued investment in ProQuest ebooks. Our institution does not permit the download and individual creation of ADE accounts. When users down load ADE personal devices they are frustrated, and will move to another platform that gives them a quick smooth and satisfying mobile reading experience.
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Cheyenne Roduin
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We absolutely need an alternative to Adobe digital editions as we are not allowed to download it to our work devices. Please find some other option.
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Naomi Lees
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I completely agree with these comments. We are not allowed Adobe accounts because it provides the user with the opportunity to upload content, which is not allowed in our organisation because of the sensitive data we handle. This means we are not able to offer a download service for mobile users, which is what a lot of users expect from an e-book service. I heard that ProQuest were planning to release their own e-book reader - can someone tell me if there is any truth in this and when we are likely to see this service?
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Becka Cooling
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Yes. ProQuest should invest in creating their own app for Ebook Central ebooks, instead of relying on third parties like Adobe and Blue Fire Reader, which either ask for too much information (Adobe asks for a birthdate to create an Adobe ID), or that disappear overnight (Blue Fire reader is suddenly no longer available for Android, with no notice). The use of third party apps makes downloading Ebook Central ebooks clunky. ProQuest should make an app like Overdrive to simplify the end user experience.