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BeeTee-Ess · 06-02-2013, 03:50 AM

It is good to see someone acknowledge that there just may be a business benefit to Kobo in providing a sync service for sideloaded books.

Having used it regularly in a Kindle environment, I was disappointed not to find it offered by Kobo. Certainly the Kindle mechanism imposes little administrative load on Amazon, as users invoke it or not as they choose, for specific books and specific devices. Of course, Amazon does have to provide adequate storage.

I have no idea of Kobo's budgetary ability to provide it, but they can only be expected to offer it if they think their customers want it.

06-02-2013, 03:50 AM	#17
BeeTee-Ess Addict Posts: 306 Karma: 679580 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Brisbane, Australia Device: K3, K4NT, KPW2, Voyage, iP4, iP6, iPad Mini, HP TouchPad, Kobo Mini	It is good to see someone acknowledge that there just may be a business benefit to Kobo in providing a sync service for sideloaded books. Having used it regularly in a Kindle environment, I was disappointed not to find it offered by Kobo. Certainly the Kindle mechanism imposes little administrative load on Amazon, as users invoke it or not as they choose, for specific books and specific devices. Of course, Amazon does have to provide adequate storage. I have no idea of Kobo's budgetary ability to provide it, but they can only be expected to offer it if they think their customers want it.