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Originally Posted by Braid
Anyone else find this quite hard to believe?
Maybe it really does take months to manufacture the Kobo Aura One, and it also takes months to manufacture the Sleepcover for the Kobo Aura One. And maybe Kobo really did sell ten times as many of each as they had anticipated. That is one way of interpreting things.
But, it seems unlikely to me. The KA1 is their flagship reader. Obviously it was released to coincide with Christmas. I simply cannot see how it would take months to manufacture some more Sleepcovers. What seems more likely to me is that Kobo have decided to stop selling the units because of the high proportion of refunds they are receiving.
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Making a simple assumption that Kobo was taken by surprise by the number of units sold as it is supposed to be their flagship with a price point a lot higher than their other ereaders though not quite up to Amazon's flagship pricing. Add in that from chatting with one Chapters/Indigo employee, their sales for the Aura One were higher than expected and yes, having it sell out faster than expected is not hard to believe.
Considering that the displays from eInk, the coating from HZO, pretty much all parts of the supply chain have their own lead times and delays are going to happen. Six to eight weeks delay from the original announcement would take us into 2017.
For the sleepcover, there I can see a redesign happening. The material used in the cover should not trigger the capacitive touch screen.
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Originally Posted by Braid
So, I'm beginning to regret jumping to purchase mine so quickly. Maybe it is plagued with all kinds of bugs and malfunctions that later versions won't suffer from.
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Interesting that you had to say
maybe. May I inquire as to what issues is your KA1 suffering from that keep you from reading ebooks on it?