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Originally Posted by chromedome
As I originally said, if I cannot find a way to make a product DRM free I would not purchase from that vendor. On the Kobo website I've always been able to download the Adobe DRM version of an e-pub, so no problem. The kepub is just a convenience on Kobo devices, but I don't have to use it exclusively, therefore, I don't understand your point?
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Samy is aware of what has happened to x number of us lately - we've bought an ebook from the Kobo website on the understanding that it was an Epub, and it turned out to other than Epub.
In my case, last Sunday I bought an O'REilly published book (with the 50% off sale) on the new look Kobo Aus website, and it turned out the book was a kepub. But - I didn't know that there was no Epub available until after the sale, and for that matter the book's format has never been described by Kobo at all. By the fact that I could only access it via Kobo Desktop, it is assumed that it has to be a kepub.
Fortunately for me I was able to rename the kepub by adding the extension .epub to it and therefore convert it to an epub book.
However, because it's an O'REilly ebook, it was bound to have been DRM free (although the Kobo website did not declare any DRM status at all).
Had the ebook had DRM then the conversion of kepub to epub via the addition of the .epub extension would not have worked and I'd be stuck with a kepub only book - unless I used the new fix - which hasn't been incorporated into Alf's cadre, and therefore I'm a bit too uncomfortable to attempt it.
Make sense a bit more now?