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Originally Posted by Metal Mick
My understanding was that the "Guys in Kiev" were Pocketbook - with the former phrase a kind of casual reference to the main company. From your posting, it appears I am wrong.
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There is company called
PocketBook International. They have headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine.
Guys in Kiev is how we started to call programmers working for PocketBook International in Kiev.
We were told that programmers are fiercely independent, that they were made co-owners of the company.
http://pocketbook-int.com/
The guys that post here, Mtravellerh and Forgosigan work for
Pocketbook Readers GmbH, Deutschland. Some one and a half year ago Forkosigan met PocketBook developers at some fair in Germany and he decided that he wants to sell PocketBook devices in Germany. So he started a company that is now called Pocketbook Readers GmbH, Deutschland. Forkosigan later hired Mtravellerh as Public Relations manager for PocketBook GmbH.
So there are two separate companies. One designs produces and programs devices and another one that sells them to the rest of the world.
Dulin's Books is one of resellers that sell PocketBook devices. Recently he and other resselers from USA are forbidden to sell devices to
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Europe, Russian Federation, Israel, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia ...
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(Obviously somebody didn't realize that Czech republic and a few other mentioned countries fall under "Europe".)
To make matters even more complicated some time ago PocketBook company from Ukraine started some cooperation with Netronix (where first models were manufactured). Recently I heard that they do not cooperate as much anymore, and that the last models are manufactured by Foxcon.
Please correct me if I misunderstood, misstated or omitted something.