Enhance the eReading experience for your users

Adobe Vendor ID works with Adobe Reader Mobile SDK and Adobe Content Server, enabling to streamline the device activation and content authorization process for eBooks, improving the eReading experience for your users.

Adobe Vendor ID allows vendors to streamline the content authorization process by providing vendors with a unique ID which can be used to authorize content on behalf of its users. This eliminates the need for readers to create, use or see their Adobe ID. Vendors gain more control over the authorization process; and can effectively eliminate the dependency on Adobe ID for their users.

Simplified user experience

With Vendor ID you no longer have to interrupt new users' reading experience, and ask them to stop; launch a browser; create an Adobe ID; and then return and authorize the content.

Remove dependency on Adobe ID

Some customers feel the perception of a dependency of an account created at adobe.com, an "external site", confuses their users.

Tie the user to your eBookstore

Some customers have implemented Vendor ID as a means to further tie their users to their bookstore and brand.

Language support

The Adobe website interface to create Adobe IDs may not support customers' native language (Icelandic, Gujarati, etc.). Eliminating the Adobe ID creation step enables customers to keep their users in their own (language) environment.

Joining Adobe Vendor IDs and Adobe IDs

Adobe Vendor ID supports a joining mechanism whereby Adobe ID-based user accounts can be "joined" with Vendor ID -based ones. Depending on your business requirements, you may wish to implement joining. The Vendor ID APIs include mechanisms for joining multiple Vendor IDs and Adobe IDs together.

If you wish you enable your users to read other Adobe DRM-based content on your device/app, you can enable this via account joining; if instead you wish to restrict content to only your content, you can skip the joining process. It's your choice. For more information on Joining Accounts, visit our Knowledgebase.

Licensing

Implementing Vendor ID typically involves modifing your RMSDK-based application or using an eReader which already supports VendorID, such as DL Reader. For more information on licensing and to discuss pricing with a Datalogics Sales Representative, please contact us or call us directly at +1 (312) 853-8200.