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Originally Posted by taming
From my perspective, it does nothing to take away from Kobo's well known philosophical commitment to openness. Hypocritical, I think not.
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Well, the other stuff is as you said, a recent mistake, but regarding the Carina Press situation, I'd have to say that Kobo talks a good game, but they're not practicing what they preach.
Here's Carina Press' own
FAQ entry and
official blog statement which says that they offer their books DRM-free to everyone and if another outlet puts DRM on them, that wasn't Carina's decision or preference.
Here's Kobo's official blogpost from September on "
DRM if necessary, but not necessarily DRM" which claims that if someone offers Kobo their books DRM-free and says to keep it that way, then they do. Already in the comments there's someone pointing out that they've been DRM-ing Carina Press' DRM-free books.
Here's
more anecdata that Carina Press' normally DRM-free books on Kobo are DRM-ed there, from people who tried taking advantage of a sale on them at Kobo and found they couldn't transfer/convert them as they thought they'd be able to.
I have one Carina Press freebie from Kobo (
Last Days of a Rake, still free in the listings) and it is indeed DRM-ed at Kobo, but remains
DRM-free at other non-Carina outlets.
So yeah, I'm afraid I'm going to have to call shenanigans on Kobo for this one, at least.