actual quote from thread:
"I looked up some stuff about the Kobo-ADE process; so, if I get this right, you have to download ADE and use that on a PC or Mac or Android or iOS device, and make an Adobe account, and then you can download even Digital Restrictions Management*-encumbered ebooks and then can use ADE to move the files onto your non-Kobo e-ink reader of choice."
The thing that every ebook shop competes against:
The publishers insist on copy protection and stuff which makes it a pain in the arse to just buy an ebook and read it, whereas the pirate websites just straight-up hand you an epub no questions asked
The ideal perfect-world solution:
What some folk end up doing:
Publishers and authors could learn a lot from how PC game piracy became less convenient than buying a game through steam, the closest thing to "Steam but for ebooks" is kindle but the difference between kindle and steam is that steam is good
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