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Originally Posted by rcentros
I look at it this way. KePub is basically "Kobo's AZW" format. What other non-Kindle eReaders can directly read AZW documents?
My problem is not so much with KePubs it is (or was, anyhow) the problem of not knowing which books are in KePub format.
Just curious, have you ever owned a Sony or a Kobo?
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Nope. But I expect if a vendor supports a reader, they have an obligation to make sure all their books work on it, without requiring any third-party circumvention schemes.
Amazon supports the Kindle ereader line, all of which can read any book in the Kindle Store.
If Amazon supported a non-Kindle ereader, I would demand they either make sure that ereader can read AZW3/MOBI, or that Amazon start sending EPUB to those ereaders.
Additionally I would be highly upset if I bought a book thinking in good faith that it did work, and then it turned out it wouldn't.
Kobo was doing both, and still is doing one. At least they fixed the worse offense, but I still think they have an obligation to make sure they have EPUB2 to send to readers that they
officially support but which only read EPUB2. That or provide a firmware update that enables KEPUB support They never should've accepted to support the bookstore on the Sony if they cannot actually provide it with the books they list in the storefront.