# downloading ebooks?

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Wednesday, 30-Aug-2006 23:33:45

I went to www.ebooks.com, selected a book to purchase, went through the sign up and payment information procedure, and then tried to download using Acrobat reader 7.0 which is the version it specified I should have. After I clicked on "download my book" I got this message that said something like "the author has set security in such away as to prevent access." Now why the hell would they do that and then have the book listed on ebooks.com? I paid for the damn thing and now can't download it apparently. What a rip off!
Anyone else ever experience this? I really wanted to try ebooks because there are books I want that I can't get on tape from NLS, and I've heard so many people talking about getting ebooks. But I'm afraid to try any more books because I won't find out until after I pay for it whether or not I can download it.

## Post 2 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Thursday, 31-Aug-2006 3:01:10

I've heard of this problem happening. People are so worried they are going to lose a nickle... (but I won't lecture you).
As far as I know, there's nothing legally you can do. However, it might be worth it to email the people at ebooks.com and adobe. Adobe shares in the responsibility here, as they can't make their product both secure and accessible. I would think ebooks.com would want to keep a satisfied customer.
Just my thoughts.
Bob