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Originally Posted by jgoguen
I'd like to hear from you all with your opinions on whether you think side-loaded KePub stats are a good idea now that you know the issues. I'd also like to know if this makes you more likely to purchase Kobo books (and less likely to use this plugin) or more likely to purchase books from non-Kobo retailers and use this plugin for KePub features.
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It doesn't make it more or less likely for me to buy from Kobo and not less likely to use the plugin either.
But I don't know why Kobo took time to break a feature that was working well with sideloaded KePubs. Breaking that surely doesn't make more people buy from Kobo - rather the contrary might be the case or it might have no effect at all. But I don't see people running to Kobo and spend the money they've already spent for a certain book again just to get the stats displayed. It's a nice to have feature but it's not like I can't read my books without Kobo telling me that I will need 9 minutes to finish that chapter (which is only approximately anyways...)
Kobo could have spent the time for things that make reading more comfortable (e.g. offering tap zones like Coolreader has or at least more than 3 different tap zone settings) or for fixing bugs.
I really wish they would listen more to their customers - the people they want to spend their money on Kobo products instead of letting some marketing people tell them what they think is a good idea (which quite often is anything but good).