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Originally Posted by murg
Kobo will automatically convert your ebook to kepub.
Kobo will automatically download the kepubs to people's devices. Kobo will use its own DRM for this. You cannot manually download a kepub.
The download buttons (epub2/epub3) are for manually downloading the epub2/epub3. This file will not have been changed by Kobo. This may involve Adobe's DRM, or none at all. The download is to you computer or other device, but not you ereader.
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Got it. I have a Kobo for QAing, but I've never purchased a book directly through the Kobo store.
Do people shopping in the Kobo store know that if they download directly through they're device they're getting a kepub, which is better suited for the Kobo since it uses Webkit, and if they download off the website they're getting an epub (in most cases) that uses Adobe's inferior engine when loaded onto a Kobo?
That's a mostly rhetorical question, no need to guess at what other people know or don't know.
One last thing, can anyone point me to where Kobo explains its relationship to books that it sells off its website? In other words, if a valid epub that was downloaded off Kobo's website and loaded onto a Kobo by the customer contains formatting/rendering issues does Kobo bear the same responsibility for handling those issues as it does if the book was a kepub and downloaded directly onto a user's device?
Again, thank you so much!