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Originally Posted by khalleron
You and your friends seem to be laboring under the misapprehension that because you own a Kobo device, you must buy your books from Kobo.
You do not! Epub is an open standard and epub books are available from a number of retailers. (My favorite right now is Google Books).
Has Amazon gotten everyone trained to believe that all ereaders are locked in to the retailer you bought the device from?
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Have you considered that regardless of whether or not you can buy from elsewhere, (and there are valid reasons to not want to do that, as mentioned above,) it is
still perfectly reasonable to desire other vendors (e.g. Kobo) to have decent prices, because... apparently people like options, and encouraging competition?
(That would be the main reason to buy a Kobo in the first place.
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