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Originally Posted by ectoplasm
I was going to buy a Kobo book today for the first time, until I figured out I might not get a real EPUB. I noticed I can put samples in my online library, and only some of them have an EPUB download link. I'm not interested in yet another DRM format, and even worse, paying without knowing what DRM may or may not be involved.
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Paola covered this already, but just in case it's your first time buying ebooks from an epub-centered vendor and you're initially as confused as I was:
If you buy an epub with DRM, you typically download an .ascm file from the vendor's site that you then open in Adobe Digital Editions, which then downloads the appropriate epub file (with DRM). If Apprentice Alf lives in Calibre land, then you can import that epub file just fine and process or convert it as you see fit. Without Calibre, you can also open it with any epub reader that supports Adobe DRM.
kepub is an enhanced epub format that is used by the Kobo readers, and the format that is used when files are sent to your Kobo reader or your Kobo app during the syncing process (mostly only useful if you don't use Calibre). It's actually quite nice and I set up Calibre to export in kepub format when I send books to my Glo (and epub when I send to the Nexus).