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Originally Posted by meeera
For some inexplicable (or, at least, so far unexplained) reason, Kobo has told us that they only offer kepub books when they've been supplied with an epub3 format by the publisher. And yet, other ebook retailers manage to provide ADE epub downloads for the exact same books at the exact same time. The publishers aren't insisting that it be kepub-only; on the contrary, one publisher decided to give me an epub download of a particular book themselves when I couldn't resolve this issue with Kobo (this before the [deleted] Calibre plugin became available).
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Kobo ereaders use different engines to render epubs and kepubs. The epub engine is based on Digital Editions and probably doesn't handle epub3 correctly. My guess is that Kobo decided from a customer service perspective to simply not allow downloads of books that aren't supported by their reader software.