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Originally Posted by davidfor
Kepubs are about not using the RMSDK. They are about Kobo controlling as much of the environment as possible. If they only use the RMSDK, they can't use their own DRM. That means that for every book with DRM downloaded to the device will mean that they pay the license fee to Adobe. At the moment, I am pretty sure that they only pay Adobe for DRM protected epubs that are downloaded from the store.
Add to that, if they change to the RMSDK, they have to convert all the locations currently used for kepubs (current reading position, locations used in bookmarks) to that used by the RMSDK.
And are you saying that the latest version of the RMSDK supports image zoom and handling footnotes? And they can track the position well enough to do the internal stats? Without those functions, there is no way Kobo would move to RMSDK.
And they aren't likely to remove RMSDK because of the DRM. And that it does give them support for PDF.
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I do not know about popup footnotes in the latest RMSDK. But I don't think there is image zoom. But it would still be better to have the latest RMSDK for better ePub 3 support with the better typesetting. With the latest RMSDK, there is better font handling in CSS and that I would like.
Kobo can keep Access, but do you think they'd ever have all the display/typesetting bugs fixed?