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Originally Posted by taming
Tim, it is the Kobo format that is used for all the sync operations with mobile apps, the website, and soon the WiFi reader. My assumption has been that this proprietary DRM scheme is in place because they can't use ADE with them.
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I know what it does. I just can't figure out why it is used :-). I had assumed that it made sense because it could be used with the other mobile devices. Since the latest iPhone app uses ePub format my theory that the format allowed consistency between platforms is shot down.
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Originally Posted by taming
It's interesting that Sony has its new generation of readers still tied to the desktop and ADE. No WiFi--though they have touch. Sony is supposed to have some apps coming up, so they too will have to figure out how to make a non-ADE drm format correctly.
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Kobo has clearly figured out how to deliver epubs to the apple devices and keep them encrypted.
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Originally Posted by taming
Does this make any kind of sense?
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Not really, given the issues with graphics (which are prevalent in sci-fi and fantasy and other genres) there does not seem to be a good reason to maintain a second format. I suppose they may run the publisher formats through something to allow it to fit the device better...
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Originally Posted by taming
I'm really hoping that improving the Kobo sync formatting is one of the things they have been working on, but Kobo doesn't tell us much about their future plans. I can understand why they might not want to release this kind of information, but sheesh, inquiring minds definitely want to know  |
Yes, they do...
Tim