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Originally Posted by user2178319
However, the Kobo guidelines say that epubs use the Adobe DRM and kepubs use the Kobo DRM. If you go to the Kobo store and look at the publication info on most/all of the books for sale, they all say they "Download options:EPUB2 (Adobe DRM)" or "Download options:EPUB3 (Adobe DRM)", which leads me to assume that Kobo doesn't automatically convert epubs to kepubs when they're uploaded.
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One item is that Kobo will only apply DRM at the publisher or author's request. Quite a few of the epubs and kepubs I've purchased from Kobo have not had DRM applied.
If you want to sell an ebook through Kobo with DRM, Kobo will use the more or less industry standard Adobe ADEPT DRM for epub format ebooks. ACCESS who produce the epub3 renderer used for kepubs does not support Adobe's DRM, Kobo came up with their own DRM wrapper for those ebooks.
For fun, if you look at the downloaded Kobo epub on your Mac or Windows computer or in the .kobo\kepub directory on a Kobo ereader, you will notice the file has a file name that looks strangely like a GUID with no filetype. On an Android device, it seems as the if the .zip container for an epub or kepub is opened up and the files stored individually.