I've not been wise to these discounts although I don't think $1 off would push me to purchasing anything at the moment. I was encouraged by some other promotions to pick up a couple ebooks but at the moment I have enough public domain books or somewhat grey-market ebooks to keep me busy (I consider books I own physical versions of that I download from shady sources grey-market, the music industry hasn't convinced me to buy music twice so I can use my CD player and MP3 player, the publishing industry won't convince me either!).
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Originally Posted by clintbradford
I do have to admit (since we are private here) that Kobo has been responsible for me reading more fiction the past few months than I had for YEARS beforehand. My nightstand has computer books and mags, biographies, and other very non-fiction titles. But I have "explored" and purchased more fiction - from "majors" and from Smashwords and independent authors - and I am glad that I have experienced what I have with the Kobo.
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That seems to be the case for a lot of ereader users as
reported by WSJ.
It isn't really the case for me though, I don't think I read more or less than before ebooks but that's just cause I've always been a heavy reader. My brother who I also got hooked on a Kobo is probably in the same position as me, he just read a lot before so it isn't any more or less than before. I can see why it would drive more people to read more though.
I also think the idea of ebooks portable between multiple devices is another great way to encourage reading, I do the majority of my reading of my Kobo in the evenings but when I'm out waiting for appointments and the like I have opened up the Kobo app on my smartphone and read a few pages. I love this aspect of the Kobo ecosystem, I know Barnes & Noble, Amazon and now Apple with iBooks for the iPhone & iPad also implement the system but Kobo's is the most open which makes it my choice.