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Originally Posted by ottdmk
Thing is, improvements don't draw reviews, attention and publicity. Distinctive features do. The Facebook integration is all about distinguishing the Kobo from all the other ereaders out there.
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Not sure about that. I was drawn to the Kobo because of a good review that said there were frequent updates that improved the Kobo as an e-reader (like adding the possibility for annotations to epubs). I thought that was very distinguishing.
And what good will it do if people interested in the Kobo will hear that, yes, there is Facebook integration, but no, you still don't have shelves but instead of that you now can share Kobo (!) books to the FB Timeline.
Distinctive features are fine, but not if features that should be standard are not available.
And most people want an e-reader to be good for reading and book management. Everything else is a bonus. So reading experience should come first, gimmicks much later.
Really distinguishing would be tag support or meta data display.