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Originally Posted by AdrianM
So has anyone come up with an objective comparison of the numbers involved? That is the number of commercial mobi books from Amazon vs the numbers of commercial ePub books from everyone else.
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The numbers, I'm sure, are close and irrelevant.
There may be an odd specific title or two that can be found in one store but not another, but the main issue is, I think, promotions.
I have a Kindle and like shopping at Amazon, but Kobo does give out some great coupons. If I can get a book for free from Kobo with a coupon when it would have cost me $1.99 or 99 cents at Amazon, I'll go for it.
Obviously, Amazon has little incentive to make this terribly easy to do, and likely figures (probably correctly in many cases) that the simple integrated Kindle buying experience from Amazon will offset many folks desire comparison shop.
I was thinking that perhaps the desire to patronize one company vs another was a factor, but why on Earth would you buy a reader from a company if you didn't want to buy books from them?