Downloading the program like that is fine, but downloading an ePub is a problem... This needs to be fixed for OSX.

Semantics and finger pointing doesn't fix the issue that a software installer does not work with a later version of an operating system.

Well since it did not work in 10.7.2 in October 2011 and here we are in May 2012 and it doesn't work in 10.7.3 who do you really think is the problem?  There is nothing wrong with ADE, it works great once installed manually.  The problem is the flash based installer thinks the system does not meet the minimum requirements for ADE to run and it will not install.  Some ePub retailers have the flash based installer check to see if ADE is installed and checks the requirements before allowing you to download the acsm file to get your book. Which means you can not get something you purchased.  So yes, I am dissing the inept flash installer and believe that instead of asking Apple to change an operating system to make this little thing work, maybe the developers of this little thing can.

Alex, I thought about what you said again.  I think you may be on the edge

of discussing digital rights content management, which is different from

Flash.  Let me take a moment to talk about that.

Adobe Content Server 5 or above has been adopted as one of the industry

standard protocols for publishers, distributors and authors to use to

implement digital rights.  Although it's embedded in ADE, it's also

embedded in other epublication management software, such as Overdrive,

Calibre and Bluefire reader.  If some of the ebooks you're working with

have digital rights protection, it's because the publisher or distributor

specified whether you're allowed to copy or print the epublication you're

working with.  Amazon and Apple have chosen to use a different method to

activate digital rights protection in the epublications they distribute.

So, if you have an ebook with digital rights and you attempt to download it

from Apple onto a Mac, it will act differently than if you went to another

site (except Amazon) and tried to download it onto your Mac.  In the first

instance, Apple will manage the process completely, interfacing with its

software on the Mac, and putting the ebook into an Apple library.  In the

second instance, ADE will manage the process and put the ebook into its own

library.

Flash doesn't do any of this.  If it's preventing you from going further,

it's managing application access, not application actions.

Does that make sense in explaining any of what's going on?

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Hmmm....  If this is happening only on the Windows PC, then I'm beginning

to think that the Win 7 security settings may be intervening between you

and your download.  Win 7 requires a certain amount of twiddling in order

to permit outside sites to activate programs located on your computer.

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