The detente between Apple and Adobe over Flash support on the iPhone may be more than a storm in a teacup - at stake could be both company’s plans for the future of publishing.
There’s been lots of attention in recent weeks lavished upon Apple’s eBook-plus-tablet plans and the move by major publishers to announce development and cooperation of new digital formats for their print products. And now it looks like Adobe is doing what it can to stake a place in the game.
The company has announced that over 100 publishers, book retailers and libraries have adopted Adobe Content Server 4 software to protect PDF and EPUB eBook content and support the distribution to thousands of