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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Now you know how we feel when authors who go exclusive with Amazon tell us to convert to ePub.
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The conversion wasn't my issue, it's the hoop jumping during the purchase that was. With Amazon if you don't have a kindle and have never bought from them before, you sign up for amazon account, install kindle app, buy book.
There's no need to sign up for an adobe account, install flash and then install ADE, authorise your PC followed by downloading a URL link and then "open with" ADE.
Whilst with kobo you need to install ADE and with amazon you'd need to install Kindle App, the setup process is much more convoluted with kobo than amazon imho.
DRM removal/conversion steps are similar for amazon->epub as kobo->mobi.
That said, I agree authors shouldn't go exclusive for amazon, mainly because authors shouldn't rely on non amazon customers stripping DRM just to read their books, nor should they be putting all their eggs in one basket retailer wise. If amazon pay enough to make it worth their while, I do understand why some choose to do so, but I think they're potentially asking for trouble long term.
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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
Yes but if you had done all that previously then all you would have done this time is login, click, buy, download. Kobo is worth signing up for and getting all those downloads sorted out. With all of their discount codes, I regularly get books more cheaply than I can find them on Amazon.
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I'm not disputing that once setup the two are reasonably similar purchase methods. But in terms of initial experience in buying something, the hoop jumping for setting up kobo was silly. I think of all the steps, it's the need to have flash installed in your browser that was the most annoying, had they linked to a standalone installer for ADE, then I wouldn't have felt the process was too much more inconvenient.