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Originally Posted by Anak

And don't forget if Kobo stops discounting, many Dutch readers will buy their books at Bol.com because the vast majority of books are protected with social DRM in stead of Adobes ADEPT(actually all other book vendors offer social DRM, Kobo is the only exception). Without a discount there is hardy any benefit to buy books at Kobo.

Even without discounts, Kobo is often cheaper than Bol.com. Most of the time it is like this, for a 'standard fantasy paperback' of around 300 pages:

Bol.com: € 7,99
Kobo NL: € 6,99
Kobo US: $ 6,59 (€ 4,95)

I'd miss shopping in the US more than the discount codes, to be honest. Often, getting the books through my US account (or more accurately, my relative's US account) saves me 30%+, because the prices are lower, and in Dollars too.

By the way: the social DRM, such as the base64 image, can be ripped out easily using some regular expressions in Calibre's ebook editor.

Or, if you search of browse for books, or look for release information of books to be released in the coming 6-12 months you probably won't find it or as easily as on any other book vendor site.

I never had any problems finding books on the Kobo website.

I'm active on a few general, non-technical book forums in The Netherlands (this includes Belgium Flanders) and Germany.
An overwhelming majority prefers social DRM above any other form of DRM. If there is no price difference they will buy books at the store that offers social DRM.

Obviously, as it offers you to convert books (and edit, if you really want to) without resorting to de-DRM-tools which may, or may not be updated to remove new versions of the DRM-schemes.

I did see, however, that if you convert a book using social DRM from EPUB to AZW3, the Kindle will display a [?] on every page on which the base64 image is encoded.