Thread: The Kobo DRM-free epub fiasco
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Old 04-02-2015, 06:24 AM   #317
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
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.
And of course, that is a bug in Kobo software that Kobo have acknowledged. They are in the process of fixing it. They haven't given a time line for the fix, but that is what I would expect.
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