Kobo eReader – Jaye Em Edgecliff

I like supporting various e-readers and their associated services. It’s, frankly, not usually very difficult.

Sadly, Kobo has decided to make it so. For no reason I can fathom they do not accept ePub files that even the most exacting alternatives accept without question and that work on their App (I don’t have one of their devices so have no idea), won’t accept a MOBI file that Amazon took no issue with, and does very strange things when fed a raw .doc/.docx file. Therefore, while Love or Lust will continue to be sold there for the foreseeable future, Ready or Not will not be carried there nor will any future books.

I’m sorry.

If you’re a Kobo user you can get ePub copies from Apple, DriveThru Fiction, and Smashwords. Nook is also an ePub version, but it can be awkward to get at the file, though not impossible — so Barnes & Noble is another source of the file. I do not use DRM so the file you get from any of those sources will play happily with your device so long as Kobo continues to support standard ePub format. My personal recommendation is not-Smashwords as the formatting gets a little weird after the trip through their “meat grinder” which is as horrible as it sounds.

I am actually very sad to be leaving Kobo, and I may return some day if their service to the publisher/author improves. They are almost as respectful to their content providers as Apple and offer many of the same services. Only DriveThru Fiction can remotely say the same. Still I have no intention to spend hours or even days pulling my hair out trying to track down its various imagined code errors.