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Old 12-25-2010, 02:20 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by taming View Post
From my perspective, it does nothing to take away from Kobo's well known philosophical commitment to openness. Hypocritical, I think not.
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.
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