Thread: Warning -- Take Your Books Off Kobo Now!
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Old 04-13-2011, 02:46 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by LeeGoldberg View Post
If you are using Smashwords, go there right now and OPT OUT of having your books distributed to Kobo, the ereader used by Borders, Chapters, etc.

Today Kobo, without my knowledge or consent, has slashed the prices on a bunch of my ebooks from $2.99 down to $1.99 and 99 cents....and Amazon has followed suit. This is going to literally cost me thousands of dollars this month.
How do you know this will cost you thousands of dollars? Maybe you will gain new readers who wouldn't have bought your books otherwise.

Anyway, I agree it's in very poor taste to do something like this without any kind of authorization.
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