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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
edit. Judging by these boards, most Kobo users sideload books rather than buy from Kobo. Hence perhaps their intro of the new homescreen. Kobo sells more books in English in Canada and Australia. Sales in the UK and USA are dismal. One wonders if they will ultimately go the way of Sony. Hopefully just selling hardware remains attractive to Kobo. But they are clearly now marketing ebook sales more aggresively.
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I sideload books which have overwhelmingly been purchased from Kobo, because:
- I manage my shelves with Calibre, which is much more efficient than doing it manually on the device
- I sideload only a portion of my library instead of the whole shooting shebang, without having to go into Kobo and archive books, or keep on visibling/invisibling my entire library so I can choose.
Kobo has proved it can't market to me anyway, so the conversion rate from aggressive marketing on my delves is going to be zero.