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Originally Posted by Genre fan
I hate that the technology has changed enough that the e-book stores are moving to wireless-only and cloud-storage interaction rather than download and side-loading. It looks like they're working even harder to make sure that the books will only work with their proprietary devices. My perfectly wonderful Sony Daily Edition prs-950 and Pocket Edition prs-350 can't work with any of the vendors if they all eliminate the download options (as B&N just did; thankfully I only had 6 books and 1 magazine there). Who cares if the books are still in my account library, supposedly forever, if I can't use them?
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Some Kobo books don't have an epub download option, but I don't think this is a sign that Kobo is moving to do away with the epub download option. My reason for optimism is that they are rolling out a new online preview feature, and it only works with books that do have an epub download option. I don't think they would be investing the time to develop a new feature that only works with the type of books they intend to stop selling.
The cause of the lack of epub download option seems to be that some publishers are starting to supply new ebooks in epub3 format, even when they don't employ any epub3 features, and Kobo has never provided an epub download option for epub3 books for some unknown reason.