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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I agree with what you are saying, I just don't see the point. Saving money doesn,t seem to be the point. Taking over the epub DRM supplying market and making money, seems unlikely, selling more books because they are kepub could be it, but unless you own a Kobo and truly love it you are not looking to buy kepubs, and the convenient online store is already a big incentive for Kobo owners to buy from Kobo.
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The big incentive is that to properly support multiple languages, you need to have epub3 support. I'd suspect that the ACCESS renderer was chosen more for it's support of Japanese text than any nefarious plans to drop support for epub2. A large portion of the international market is going to require epub3 to support needed features. A different DRM scheme is mandated by Adobe appearing to have dropped their plans to produce an epub3 compliant version of the Reader Mobile code. At one time, they had a roadmap but then that roadmap vanished.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
And Kobo has pretty well shown us with 2.52, to the dismay of many, that epubs can have the same features as kepubs on Kobo readers. Maybe they didn't have all the features, but I am sure they could do it if they wanted to.
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Quite likely they could match the features between the two variants. At this time, it seems quite a few vociferous people do not want them to do so.[/QUOTE]
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Perhaps it is all a nefarious plot to make Sony et. al start supplying features, and then Kobo will jump in with a sleek clean featureless ereader and wipe them of the map  |
The reports and images I've seen for the Sony 13.3 inch ereader suggests that it is using an epub3 renderer. Either that or the books shown were hand tweaked to look good with an epub2 compliant renderer.
What we do have to remember is that in much of the world, ereaders are being squeezed out by small cheap tablets and even smartphones. Dedicated ereaders are likely to become even more of a niche market while ebooks continue to grow.
Regards,
David