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Originally Posted by fbrII

This is from an e-mail I received today from a local independent bookstore.

Thanks for taking the time to transcribe that. Pretty much the ONLY detail about this deal that's been public and specific is that purchases made on the device would result in a revenue kick back to the indie store who sold it. Which had me wondering about particulars: would it mean Kobo would have to track the S/Ns of each and every device by retailer? Sounds like a lot of busy work, but maybe they do that now...

I'm glad to hear it because it means one less hoop for newbies to jump through in order for the indie to start seeing that revenue. (I was under the impression that a customer would ALSO have to modify their profile/account in order to credit the store. Again, it was all guesswork. I had no hard data.)

The e-mail goes into detail about how the relationship between Kobo and independent book stores and offers links to various 'how-to's' to help new Kobo users.

Great news. As of Saturday, my friendly neighborhood storeowner pretty much had nothing but a demo Glo and a cable on his hands.

Suffice it to say, I think this book-seller is excited about the new agreement and it appears to me that some thought has been put into how to make this a successful launch by both Kobo and the independents.

I agree that Kobo is working hard right now to make some magic happen. They seem to be working down to the wire and it was really great that they released Instant Reader for iPhones as of last Thursday. Speaking strictly for myself, my loyalty is to my local bookstore. When the Google deal went live, I started e-book shopping there. Once the Kobo deal goes live, that's where my e-book dollar will go. Buh-bye, Google.

So Kobo will definitely be getting me out of the deal if nothing else.

Thanks again for sharing that...