Thread: The Kobo DRM-free epub fiasco
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Old 04-01-2015, 12:17 PM   #316
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Originally Posted by odamizu View Post
So how do we convince ebook vendors and publishers to give up DRM? I asked this question in this thread, and it seems vendors and publishers have little incentive to do so.
The problem here is NOT an issue of DRM. Tor sells eBooks without DRM. The issues is Kobo treating all ePub 3 eBooks as kepub and not allow us to download them as standard ePub instead of only kepub. Because a number of publishers are publishing needlessly (IMHO) in ePub 3, Kobo see those as fit only for Access (the ePub 3 reading software on Kobo Readers) and not fit for RMDSK (ADE core software) even though these ePub 3 will work with RMDSK no problem.

This is a vendor (Kobo) issue and it has nothing to do with DRM. If every publisher who now released ePub in ePub 3 were to go DRM free, you'd still only be able to download their eBooks (from Kobo) as kepub.
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