MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - kobobooks.com doesn't give format anymore?

taming · 08-10-2013, 02:48 AM

I'm going to go out on a limb and do some guessing here. I think the website is half baked at the moment.

I looked at how Google Play is telling folks what format their books are and noticed that rather than saying PDF or ePUB, they are now listed as reflowable or scanned. My sense is that what the Play store is doing is a look at the future--a future that includes reflowable PDF and fixed format ePUBs.

I think that the days when a label ePUB or PDF is enough to tell us how a book will work on a device is coming to an end. Kobo should tell us something though, not just leave us in the dark.

08-10-2013, 02:48 AM	#42
taming Trying for calm & polite Posts: 4,012 Karma: 9455193 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mostly in Canada Device: kobo original, WiFI, Touch, Glo, and Aura	I'm going to go out on a limb and do some guessing here. I think the website is half baked at the moment. I looked at how Google Play is telling folks what format their books are and noticed that rather than saying PDF or ePUB, they are now listed as reflowable or scanned. My sense is that what the Play store is doing is a look at the future--a future that includes reflowable PDF and fixed format ePUBs. I think that the days when a label ePUB or PDF is enough to tell us how a book will work on a device is coming to an end. Kobo should tell us something though, not just leave us in the dark.