How does Adobe Digital Editions differ from Adobe Reader and Acrobat?
Adobe Reader is the widely proliferated industry standard application for viewing and printing Adobe PDF documents. However, Reader supports a variety of workflows beyond consuming eBooks and other commercially published content, including interactive forms, digital signatures, and other knowledge worker workflows that involve integration with other office applications including Acrobat and server solutions such as Adobe LiveCycle® software. As a result, the power, complexity, and size of Reader are not optimized for consumer-level eBook reading. Acrobat is the broadly adopted solution for creating and manipulating Adobe PDF documents. Sharing a common software architecture with Reader, Acrobat adds powerful capabilities for document generation and collaboration. Adobe Digital Editions is a focused, lightweight solution (4MB download on Windows®). It extends the eBook capabilities integrated with previous versions of Reader and Acrobat and delivers a simplified, content-centric, consum
