ZDNet reports that Adobe has released a new e-book viewer and manager called Digital Editions (Beta).

Digital Editions is a 2.5MB free download that works as an add-in to Adobe’s Flash Player 9. The software can read PDF pages as well as XHTML-formatted content, which makes it suitable for both longer texts, such as books, and shorter texts, such as magazine articles. Digital publishers can combine text with Flash videos and animations.

Digital Editions is a beta release with the full version to be released early next year.

Read the Adobe press release…

Get Digital Editions (Beta) from Adobe Labs…

I’ll have more to say once I review it tonight.