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Originally Posted by paola
I feel somewhat guilty, as one possible reasons I think they may have gone for this move is that with gifts you could get around geographic restrictions. I had a prepaid card in dollars, and used it to buy books on a new, US account to gift them to my UK account. Having said that, curtailing the gift option altogether is too drastic a measure, and I am sure that they could have found some other ways to prevent this (e.g. accounts based in country X cannot gift to accounts based in country Y).
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I don't think that could be the reason for a change, since it would only disadvantage those with Kobo devices. Everyone else could carry on as before buying and sideloading the epub, only those wanting to sync books through the Kobo server would be inconvenienced.