I have Adobe Digital Editions installed on my computer. Adobe Digital Editions is tied to my Adobe ID email address, [email protected]
.
Over the past several years, I have purchased several (non-public domain) ebooks from the vendor ebooks.com, both EPUB and PDF. My ebooks.com account is, like my Adobe ID, associated with [email protected]
.
When I purchase and then download ebooks from ebooks.com, I am given an .acsm
file ("Adobe Content Server Message" file). Once I have downloaded the .acsm
file to my computer, I double-click on it, Adobe Digital Editions opens, and the ebook file (EPUB or PDF) is downloaded to my computer and automatically placed in Adobe Digital Editions.
Once the ebook is in Adobe Digital Editions, if I right-click on it and select "Item Info," it says:
Permissions
Licensed To: ol[email protected]
urn:uuid:########-####-####-####-############
where #
is a number 0
-9
or a letter a
-f
. When it says Licensed To: [email protected]
, what does that mean?
My overall question is, are ebooks tied to (i.e., licensed to) a particular email address?
Are they tied to a particular email address as soon as they are purchased or only when they are opened on Adobe Digital Editions for the first time?
Another way to ask this question is the following: which of the following statements is true?
An ebook is tied to a particular email address as soon as it is purchased. So if I purchase an ebook from a vendor (e.g., ebooks.com), the ebook is tied to the email address I used to purchase the ebook as soon as I click purchase. In other words, if I use
[email protected]
to purchase an ebook from a vendor, I can only open that ebook using software that is authorized to[email protected]
.An ebook is tied to a particular email address only when the
.acsm
file is actually opened and the ebook is loaded into Adobe Digital Editions (which itself is tied to a particular email address). In other words, if I use[email protected]
to purchase an ebook from a vendor, I can open it for the first time either with Adobe Digital Editions authorized to[email protected]
or with Adobe Digital Editions authorized to[email protected]
. However, once I open it with either authorization (either[email protected]
or[email protected]
), the ebook is forever tied to that particular email address and I can no longer open it with the other authorization.
My issue is that I want to change my email address, from [email protected]
to [email protected]
, without losing access to my ebooks. To do this, do I need to ask the vendor (i.e., ebooks.com) to change the email address associated with my account, or do I need to just to redownload the .acsm
files and open them in an Adobe Digital Editions authorized to [email protected]
? Neither support team is at all clear on what I will need to do.