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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I think Kobo should support epub2 because they sell them. If the ACESS renderer supports them as they were intended to be displayed by the author then that is probably good enough, still if I called Kobo and asked them how to get page numbers instead of chapter numbers, for example, and they said buy a different reader, I would not be impressed.
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I suspect that if would be fairly simple for Kobo to keep the .epub and .kepub.epub file types using the same renderer but changing the menu bars depending on the file type.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Another reason is to assuage the fears of the paranoid and uninformed.
As we know many won't buy a kindle because it does not support epub and limits their choice of venders. While we may know epub and kepub are much the same, many will not.
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All the epub3 renderers I've tried will also handle epub2. The only issue is with DRMed epubs. At this time, I don't see any way of handling Adobe's ADEPT DRM without having to include the entire Adobe RMDSK package.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
While Kobo is doing well in the marketplace right now, they may not have the resources to stick it out with the kepub thing as Amazon has done with the kindle formats. Kobo would be foolish to stop selling epubs, as many owners of other readers purchase books from them and the chances of the other ereader makers supporting kepubs is IMO nil.
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I can't see Kobo dropping the epub format any time soon. After all, epub3 is a superset of epub2. .kepub.epub is basically just a way of distinguishing Kobo's epub ebooks with some epub3 features from epub2 ebooks. I've fed some of the non-DRMed .kepub.epub files to Azardi and it seems to be quite happy with them.
Regards,
David