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Originally Posted by murg
Kobo is giving your account email address to your local country affiliate.
I assume that this is if you purchase a book from the Kobo site, but got there through the affiliate. I never directly gave the affiliate my email address. Nor have I given direct permission for Collins Books to use the email address for marketing purposes.
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Well, if you made it to Kobo through the Collins affiliate link (and I just went to Collins, clicked 'ebooks', and got thrown to Kobo, so I'm guessing that's the case), then you should realize that part of this new Kobo/indie/'affiliate' deal is that
1) there has to be a mechanism by which Kobo knows WHICH affiliate to share the revenue with
2) that mechanism is typically
2a) an affiliation by user account, which is noted by Kobo and associated with the user account's purchases, or
2b) an affiliation by device, whereby Kobo tracks where the 'affiliated' device got sold, and credits revenue to the selling affiliate.
(I may be missing details or nuance per country, but that's roughly it.)
Did you buy your device @ Collins? When I click Collins' "eReader" link, Kobo devices (and ONLY Kobo devices) come up.