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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Yes, and they also have a painless process after the sale for getting updates to books when publishers fix things in them. Kobo, not so much.
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This was it for me--I stopped buying from Kobo at
any price once I realized that, unlike everywhere else I've bought ebooks, Kobo wasn't giving me updated versions.
Publishers rush to get things out--"Let's crowdsource the proofreading, and worry about fixing the finer details of formatting later on!" Most of my books have gone through at least one revision between the time I first download them and when I get around to reading them. Sometimes the differences are substantial. I noticed a while ago that, unlike most, Kobo books were always the exact same size when I redownloaded them. Which I was pretty sure was a problem, but I didn't want to think about it too much then.
Until I bought an image-heavy book that had
none of the images in it. With no warning on the product page, all the images were replaced with a text box that said they hadn't secured the rights to the image. Even the
chapter art had that. It was a real waste of money, so I was really happy later on when I saw someone else's copy that had the images now. And sure enough, the sample on Kobo's site was showing images (not a new edition, the same one linked to my purchase). But when I redownloaded, I got the same worthless image-free copy.
It doesn't matter how much you discount. If I'm not getting the proper product, it's not worth it at any price.