Thread: Book with no EPUB download option
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Old 02-12-2014, 03:48 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by meeera View Post
No counter-evidence, but supporting evidence: a big-6 publisher has confirmed to me that that's exactly what Kobo's problem is - that they have the epub3 from the publisher, but won't offer download links for ePub3 files.
Which publisher, dare I ask? And is the publisher going to apply any pressure from their end for Kobo to fix things?

Oddly, I have found one bit of counter-evidence. I picked up the just-marked-down The Shambling Guide to New York City at Sony, even though it was the same price at Kobo, because it was an Orbit book and thus I expected it to be an EPUB3 and not downloadable at Kobo. As it turns out, the latter is true but the former is not; it's an EPUB2 without a download button.

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Originally Posted by bookbub View Post
I am not sure what game Kobo is playing but at least in my case they've lost a customer until they resolve this issue.
And that's exactly why I bought this one through Sony. Kobo has proven itself unreliable in this respect, so when there's a question (and while there's still an option), I'm going elsewhere.
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