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Originally Posted by p38lightning
Any ideas as to why the North American market has been such a problematic nut for them to crack?
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During they heyday they did sell for the North American market. Those were the times when PocketBook 360° was the king.
Unfortunately they couldn't compete with Amazon and other players. Their e-ink readers were priced for the Russian and European market. So they tried to sell in USA for different prices and we started to complain. They even tried to hide the USA prices from us in Europe and
CIS, but in the Internet era, how do you want to prevent people from talking?. We were complaining because we found it extremely unfair that we (other customers) are sponsoring American consumers (that are in general *much* richer than a typical customer in Russia or Ukraine. Remember, at that time PocketBook was an Ukrainian company, they moved their headquarters to Switzerland much later.
Instead of lowering prices here they pulled completely out of North America.
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Originally Posted by joepie
Would like to add that the Pocketbook hardware is excellent, but the software is a bit less user friendly than the other bigger brand names.
For me that is no objection, I'm a Linux guy anyway. I don't mind typing commands in a terminal/prompt every now and then. For me control over the device is more important than shiny user interfaces and happy shopping through wifi.
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Funny ...
I personally consider PB302-era software to be superior to any other e-ink reader from that time, and it has some features that even the majority of the current e-ink readers lack ;-)