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Old 01-26-2014, 07:30 AM   #56
g8krasher
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Device: Kobo Aura HD, Kindle Kbd
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Originally Posted by dalai View Post
Only for German books, foreign books can be sold at any price. English ebooks in Germany are competitively priced in my experience.
That may be the cause of a strange phenomenon I experienced just after I bought my first Kindle Kbd:
Lee Child ebook in paperback format: $6,99
The same Lee Child ebook in "Airport format": $16,99
(for those not in the know, they are larger, with the same text, fontsize a little larger and weight a lot more). Exact same content, twice the price. ??
I ran away from Amazon immeditely I saw this - by the way, the books were in English.
I quite liked my Kindle Kbd, but saw the Kobo Aura advertised. A lot more money, but the addition of a backlight and a micro-SD slot, plus the much larger viewing area, tempted me. It also supports mobi and epub, which not many ebook readers do. Thought I would alternate between the two, but within a couple of days my Kindle Kbd was left to languish, alone and no longer loved, on my bookshelf.
I loan it out now to people who want to try an eReader but don't want to invest straight off. Most get converted.

Last edited by pdurrant; 01-26-2014 at 09:36 AM. Reason: fixed quotation tags
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