Thread: kepub stuff
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Old 09-26-2014, 11:52 PM   #8
davidfor
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
The problem here is that Kobo took the eBook business from Sony. I have a T1. My T1 does not handle kepub and its DRM at all. Now because Kobo took over from Sony, you would think the eBooks they sell would all be in ePub. But they are not. And that's the problem. The listings for the eBooks do not tell you what format you get. Many people won't have a clue how to figure this out. So they buy and get a kepub that they have no idea what to do with even if it has no DRM. They don't have the Desktop program installed and even if they did, they'd not have a clue from there after it was downloaded. This is more serious then you think. It;s going to get people to leave Kobo when they end up buying kepub instead of ePub.



Another thing is I should not have to jump through hoops to get any eBooks purchased from Kobo onto my T1. It is a process that's can be a real hassle, one that I should not have to go through. Also there are a lot of people that can't do it at all and would just be pissed that the eBook just bought cannot be read.
Did you actually read what I wrote? That was the whole point. For anyone not using a Kobo ereader or app, as soon as they find out there is no easy to use format of the book, they will go elsewhere.

But, Kobo probably already know this. The probably already have plans. Of course, what we are seeing might be deliberate. They might have decided to abandon the non-Kobo reader market. I hope not and I don't think they will. That would be abandoning a lot more potential customers than they have. I think it's much more likely that the lack of a downloadable epub version of a lot of books is an oversight, an error or a shortcoming in their software or processes. If we take the case of the John Scalzi book that has been discussed, it is very likely that their software or processes simply don't handle epub3 as the input properly. Fixing that is unlikely to be simple. My expectation is that we will see more of these problems turn up in the next little while and then they will all be suddenly fixed when Kobo update their software and processes.
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