Thread: John Scalzi Lock-In not downloadable in epub format
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Old 09-25-2014, 06:17 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Eric Carroll View Post
So how is it that ebooks.com is able to offer the exact same title as downloadable epub?
Perhaps unlike Kobo, they haven't seen what a mess an epub3 ebook can be when viewed with an epub2 renderer? You might want to download some sample epub3 files -- you can download samples from Code.Google EPUB Samples, from Catto Creations or from Azardi Resources.

Quite a few of these look okay on my Kobo simply renamed to .kepub.epub to use the ACCESS renderer, others don't but virtually all look like a dog's breakfast when using the RMSDK renderer.

One of the few item JSWolf and I seem to agree on is that many publishers only support for "epub3" ebooks is changing the version from 2.0 to 3.0.
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