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Originally Posted by Psyke
Honestly, I don't know the logic to it. For all intents and purposes if it works on one, it should work on the other, but, I'm not a programmer, being a hardware person myself.
And personally, I would like to see them to drop down to epubs only too; it would make it a lot easier on themselves to try and support one form of epub rather than two. However, I think it actually has to do with Adobe's DRM; with the KEPUB's, they can offer direct downloads to your reader, where as with DRM epubs, they have to go through the Adobe software to download the book, and then transfer it to your device. I don't know how nook operates so I really couldn't comment on them and how they compare to kobo, but I believe they do have a proprietary format too, no?
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B&N uses their own DRM format. But underneath, it's still just simply an epub format book. I have no idea why Kobo felt compelled to create their own proprietary changes to epub and are now stuck have two support two reader code paths. (I'm sure it made sense at the time, but surely there must come a time when it will make more sense to give it up and just go with epub)