It seems that Kobo has decided to sell epub3 books only as kepubs, which makes a tiny bit of sense when you consider that the rendering engine used
for kepubs has a few epub3 capabilities, while the Adobe engine used for regular epubs has none.
Not exact matches
A lot of software improvement: — option to switch off footers and headers in EPUB and
KEPUB files; — text rotation (landscape mode) in EPUBs; — automate hyphenation
for non-English e-books; — PDF support (
for reading not
for displaying); — dictinaries other than English; — Send - to - Kobo wireless service
for user's e-books.
For the record, Amazon's format is mobi, Kobo's is
kepub, most are ebooks are pdf or epub format, and you can also use doc format with ereaders as well.
I think it is the «Modify ePub» plugin
for Calibre removes the
kepub coding.
While many kdrm - protected
kepub ebooks are also available
for download as regular epubs with ubiquitous Adobe DRM, this is not always the case, restricting the use of these ebooks to Kobo devices and reading applications.
Quality is already a big issue as ereading apps» developers and vendors must manage (CSS overrides,
KePub which was a radical solution
for enhancing the overall quality of the crappy files they had to sell, etc.) the unmanageable a.k.a HTML and CSS a web dev would die just looking at it since even basic HTML markup is not done properly, let's hope the devs they hire will do things well.
kepub and those go away OR there's a patch
for the Kobo OS to get rid of them with.