Thread: What exactly is a kepub?
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Old 10-25-2018, 01:12 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
and having their own not-quite-epub format made the books in their store harder to pirate ( they thought), and made it more likely that readers would buy kobo readers to read them on.
Except that they have a link to the download the epub version for almost every book in their library. That means if you can get the book to a device, you can also get the epub from the store and pirate it that way. And you don't need a Kobo device or app to read the book. Kobo don't push this as much as they did, but it is still there.

One of the advantages of their own format and provisioning system is that they will avoid the Adobe licence fee for any books that are downloaded directly to the device. And still offer DRM protection (for what it is worth).
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