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New website download option: EPUB3
I just noticed a book that shows EPUB3 (DRM-Free) under the download options, I haven't seen that before.
Has anyone bought a book with this download option? If so are you able to download the book as a plain epub3 from the website, or does it just mean it is a kepub? Last edited by GeoffR; 03-25-2015 at 11:10 AM. Reason: Added screenshot |
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I bought an EPUB3 (with DRM) a week ago and I was able to download the .acsm. ADE failed when trying to download it to its library, it gave me an error and kept crashing... I suspect because it was a very big file (around 500mb). I had to resort to the obok plugin with Calibre in the end. Anyway yes, it was an .epub.
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Which is real annoying, since you may be downloading it to move to an independent epub3 device. |
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Epub3 downloads still don't work in Australia (it's a drm-free epub3).
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I see the book in question is a Tor book (one of my publishers). Tor prides itself on being user-friendly and anti-DRM in terms of ebooks, so sending them a note, too, as well as complaining to Kobo may be effective if it really is true that the publisher is insisting on the books only being available by Wi-Fi and not via download. Tor's online efforts are coordinated by Irene Gallo, who is at irene.gallo@tor.com
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I just tried to download a free Tor ePub 3 eBook and I still get the OOPS!.
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/bo...w&PageNumber=1 |
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I can confirm that it is not available in Australia.
Has anyone been able to download it? If so, what reader did you use to read it? What features does it have that ePub2 ebooks don't have? |
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You should absolutely be able to download this book as an adobe DRM free epub3. The fact that you are not is a bug on our end that we are working hard to resolve. I will escalate this to our product team, but by no means are you not supposed to be able to download it. Thank you for raising this issue, I'll look to reply when we have a resolution. Please PM me if you come across any other 'oops' page errors when attempting to download an ebook that is DRM free. Also - our customer care team is misinformed about the ability to download. I will send them an update so they are aware of the issue. Thanks, Brodie |
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Brodie: Can you also pass this on to support. Based on the reply I posted above, they don't think the books are supposed to be downloadable.
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I know of at least two other epub3 DRM free books that the download doesn't work for (I get the oops page).
Captives (book 6 of the Breakers series) Relapse (book 7 of the Breakers series) both by Edward W. Robertson The books are shown as epub3 on the kobo Canada site and both result in the oops page if you use the Download epub link on the my library page. |
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Has this issue been resolved? I would rather not test the expensive way. (Also, probably unrelated, downloading Samples hasn't worked for ... must be at least 6 months now.. The Sample is added to my library, but no download button ever accompanies them, regardless of Drm, Non-DRM, Epub2 or Epub3)
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Not sure if all EPUB3 are now downloadable, but people are having success with some (many?) of them. See this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...66#post3080566
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