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Originally Posted by PeterT
@JSWolf: The kEpub format exists to allow Kobo to sell to and support people on a wide range of devices; devices for which there was not the ability to support the ADE mobile infrastructure.
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There was never any need to completely alter the formats of books for that. Kobo could have remained with the same Epub as everyone else. Kepub exists to support the Kobo custom formating options by using a custom css and custom javascript that interacts with the Kobo software, (rather than trying to brute force override publisher css as is done with epubs.) (We had a chance to have a good look at what 'kobization' involves when Kobo made misced meat out of several books that were offered as the Adobe Download.)
I would not want to be the one to call whether or not the Kepub changes have been a good or bad thing. It's easy to pick errors out of the crowd, but publisher supplied epubs aren't known for the their uniform quality either. However, it does cause a lot of confusion when Kobo supplies 2 different versions of the same book depending on how it was transfered to a device, and Kobo support is completely, painfully, clueless, if you have to deal with an oops.