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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer
Tor is one of my publishers (as well as one of those for my friend, John Scalzi). The irony here is that Tor, unique even among divisions of Macmillan (its parent publisher), releases all its books DRM-free now (Tom Doherty, the publisher of Tor, is a silent partner in Baen Books, one of the pioneers in DRM-free ebooks from traditional publishers).
Kobo needs to get its act in order: if the publisher wants the book to be DRM free, and if the author (as John does) wants it to be DRM free, then there should be no hassles in getting a DRM-free ePub simply and directly downloaded to your computer.
Rob
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Any chance you could let John know that his two newest eBooks now come with DRM if you buy them from Kobo? And on top of adding in DRM, Kobo has made a huge mess to the eBooks coding. I would think that Kobo is breaking the contract with Tor by not having them be DRM free and unmodified.
It's not just John's eBooks that are getting the kepub treatment. I checked out another ePub from Tor published after John's eBooks and it too got the kepub treatment. It's because Tor is needlessly producing ePub 3 eBooks and Kobo sees that as we need to make sure these eBook get read via our ePub 3 renderer. So Kobo gives them the keoub treatment and voila, crap!
Please tell anyone in the higher up at Tor and at Kobo that they need get Kobo to stop this kepub modification to any ePub. I cannot buy any new Tor eBooks from Kobo as it will be chock full of kepub goodness and DRM. So much for being sold without DRM.