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Originally Posted by VirgoGirl
It seems that posters here are firmly in 2 camps: those for advertising as it keeps the company going, thus enabling the future of our Kobo readers, and those against (like me) as it just bl**dy annoying to have advertising and marketing shoved down our throats.
The way I see it is this: if you want me to buy your books, make them (significantly) cheaper than paper books. Don't charge me $12 plus tax for something you don't have to print on paper, bind with glue, store in a warehouse or on a shelf in store and pay overhead to keep. Why on earth would I pay that $12 when all you're doing sticking it on a server and handing out copies? Particularly when often the paperback is $5 or $9.
Because you think you can, and many people will pay it.
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Fortunately this is one thing I can't hold against Kobo. This is what the publishers (the big 6) have set up. Basically they have told all those selling their books, either sell it at this price or you can't sell it at all. I think Kobo has done a pretty good job in this are where they ARE allowed to give discounts on those books from publishers that aren't part of the Big 6.
See here:
Antitrust Primer for the Publishing Price Fixing Lawsuit
DOJ Lawsuit Update: Where Windowing Becomes Important
Death of the agency model?
DOJ suing Apple over ebooks.
Barnes & Noble claims price fixing settlement will raise e-book prices
Amazon/B&N/Kobo can once again discount ebooks from the 3 Publishers starting June 10