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Originally Posted by oj829
2) paying lowest possible price is a race-to-the-bottom game which only leaves the biggest bear alive to shit in the woods as he will. Amazon's pricing is a loss-leader approach in an effort to be the last bear shitting.
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Amazon hasn't taken a loss leader approach on eBooks in a long time, the loss leader so to speak is really more the devices now than the content. That's not to say they don't discount, but not to the extreme they did in early years. What they are better at is leveraging/promoting the various titles that publishers discount each month, even their "daily deals", which Kobo has too, are often publisher discounted titles. Take Amazon's discounting of some titles versus Kobo's never ending supply of coupon/discount codes and Kobo is often discounting as much or more than Amazon.
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3) Low hurdle to "tooling" my Kobo purchases. I occasionally read "tooling" chatter from Kindle owners and I'm frankly horrified at the idea of spending that much time trying to read my books and retain copies of what I've "bought" until _I_ decide I no longer have the need/space/time for them.
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It's no harder to disinfect Amazon books than it is books from Kobo or anywhere else. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by tooling.