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I don't mind having both kepub and ePub options for the same eBook. It's when we only have kepub as an option that it's a problem. Some publishers are publishing (needlessly) ePub 3 format ePub and when Kobo's soft3ware sees that the ePub is an ePub 3 it gets converted to a kepub with no option to download it as a plain old ePub 3 eBook. One publisher that's moved to ePub 3 is Tor and their ePub 3 eBooks are being sold at Kobo as kepub only. This is against Tor's DRM free policy for one. Also, it means that a lot of people cannot do with it as they want. And finally, because it's getting kepubed, it means the ePub is getting heavily modified. Even stripping the DRM and then stripping the kepub additions using Modify ePub, the eBook is still not the same as it should be.
This is something that Kobo needs to fix and fast before all the BPHs go ePub 3 and all we get are kepub.
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