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Originally Posted by BWinmill
Which retailers are abolishing sideloading? In terms of eink based ereaders, I've only used Amazon, Kobo, and Sony. All of them were sideloading friendly. I have a hard time seeing how the smaller vendors would be able to impose such a policy.
What I have seen are vendors that are hostile towards sideloading DRMed content from other sources. Amazon fits into that category, though my Kobo and Sony devices were more than happy to accept content that used Adobe's DRM scheme -- including library books, which you would think is their biggest competitor on the basis of cost.
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Not only has B&N put considerable effort to abolishing sideloading, Kobo is not exactly a wonderful friend of sideloading either. From what I've heard, the separate EPUB renderer is quite inferior to the KEPUB renderer... and you have to do jiggery-pokery to an EPUB to make it use the KEPUB renderer. (Even changing the filename is more than happens by
default requiring you to do special stuff that many perhaps are not aware of.)