
It probably does something equivalent in MacOS, use your intuition to figure out where it might put the file. epub file in My Documents/My Digital Editions on Windows. acsm file, Digital Editions will put a working. acsm file in Adobe's "Digital Editions" software (which is a horrendous piece of crap, by the way). Instead of inspecting the contents of this.Re-download the book from the store you bought the book from and observe that you just get a.Note: If you get the error: "Not an ADEPT EPUB", then your ePub file is missing the META-INF/rights.xml file in its archive because it probably wasn't downloaded from the publisher correctly. Which refer to scripts you can find here: Some guy with a blog called "I♥CABBAGES" seems to have reverse engineered ePub DRM, and some other guy wrote a detailed How-To guide here: I have no intention of violating the rights owner's copyright. Honestly, I don't care, I just want to read my books. Were they within their rights? I don't know but probably. I wouldn't have purchased them if I knew they'd do this. pdb files and replaced them with ePub files that only worked with their App, which is terrible compared to the Kindle App. Later, when B&N released the Nook App, they deleted my. I purchased these books (originally as pdb files) to be used with eReader for Android (when it still worked). I don't even use a copy of software that a friend "lends" to me. I do not download pirated music or movies. Even if you disagree with the decision, at the very least it's debatable, not illegal. Basically it's legal to remove DRM on your own files as long as you don't then use them to violate the copyright.

Simply breaking DRM is not illegal in the US according to 5th Circut Court of Appeals ( see this article for a quicker analysis). UPDATE for those who are lecturing me on the law and morality: I have a bunch of ePub files that I have bought from Barnes & Noble that I'd like to be able to read in my Kindle App.
