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Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe
Key takeaways
- People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives, not because anyone is genuinely excited about these tools.
- I’m happy to report that I (mostly) make do without Adobeware these days (shoutout to Photopea), and yet, my disdain of Adobe just reached a completely new level.
- As always I gave readers direct access to DRM-free EPUB files, which go through a gauntlet of processes until they pass all epubcheck err checks.
People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives, not because anyone is genuinely excited about these tools.
I’m happy to report that I (mostly) make do without Adobeware these days (shoutout to Photopea), and yet, my disdain of Adobe just reached a completely new level.
A while back I published a new book. As always I gave readers direct access to DRM-free EPUB files, which go through a gauntlet of processes until they pass all epubcheck err checks.
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