Thread: Touch Kobo Touch Firmware 2.0
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Old 07-11-2012, 03:07 PM   #152
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Originally Posted by frankieGom View Post
Because Kobo wanted more control, or more predicability, on the rendering of books they sold? Or maybe add a mechanism to protect the included intellectual property? In any case, what we know is that the formats are somewhat different and the FW uses a separate renderer for each.

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I still think they could use the same renderer, but develop (and test) a "home-standard" epub structure which is always rendered perfectly. The protection of their intellectual property is based on their DRM-system - as far as I know it is unbroken (not like Adobe's), so it works.
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