ade will not display epub books from itunes

[chook021]

Has anyone had this problem. I have several free books in epub format that has been downloaded through itunes. as I do not have iphone, itouch or ipad I thought that ade would allow me to view these on the computer or shift to a different reading device. However when I add to the library the book will add but displays nothing but white pages. an icon does not appear next to the file name either - like when the computer needs to search the internet for something to open with

can anyone help as this is very frustrating

[Jim_Lester-oIBbX7]

The only application that you can view content purchased from Apple is iBooks, which right now is only available on iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad).  The DRM that Apple locks the content with prevents it from being viewed on any other ePub viewer such as ADE.