Thread: Should Kindle Readers support Epubs?
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Old 03-15-2020, 11:04 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by rashkae View Post
The problem with Epub is the 'standard' includes DRM poison pill. If Amazon advertised epub support, there is no way that the average consumer would understand why they are unable to load books from almost all of the stores selling 'epubs.'.. (And there's no way Amazon is going to license Adobe software to add to the Kindle.. that would be assinine.)

And as for the legit stores that sell drm free epubs? Most of them are perfectly happy providing mobi as an alternative, so no loss there either.
I agree that this is a DRM issue rather than a file formatting issue. We want Epub because we want the books to be transferred between devices. But I just cannot imagine why amazon would deliver its product without any DRM after their ecosystem has been established so firmly after all these years.

And if DRM is still attached to an Epub, and every other device need some sort of additional authentication to open it, what's the point to change to another format?
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