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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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I hate to interrupt a good rant but perhaps it's time to toss a little bit of common sense into this discussion.
Lock In is only available as a kepub. That does not mean that it has any kind of DRM. Just as epub does not mandate DRM, kepub does not mandate DRM. I'm not certain whom but someone once mentioned that Kobo applies DRM at the request of the publisher.
It does mean that you can download it to your computer using the Kobo Desktop application with a file name such as: 2236ed94-0c86-4930-abb1-db422cb1f452 which does lack human readability. On the other hand, simply copying the file to a different location and then renaming the copy to, say, Lock In.epub gives you a file that opens without issue in ADE, DLReader and a couple of other epub readers I have on hand. Open the file with Sigil and it has both a toc.ncx and nav.xhtml files which makes it an example of what some sites refer to as epub2/3.