Thread: New Home Screen vs Old Home Screen
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Old 03-10-2017, 07:39 PM   #74
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Pajamaman View Post
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.
I do both. I buy most of my books from Kobo, and will start reading the downloaded version. If there are problems with the formatting, I will fix them in the epub version, sideload that and read it instead. I also get plenty of books from elsewhere, and sideload them.

But, the problem I have with this statement, is the first four words: "Judging by these boards". The members of MR are not typical users of these devices. And, in my opinion, are not part the target market of either Kobo or Kindle. Even if we are, there are so few of us, it wouldn't be worthwhile marketing to us. And evidence of that is the lack of a representative from either company, or any of the others, here.

Using us as a measure for anything in the wider world just doesn't work. If I look at questions asked in a non-ereader forum, people express surprise when you tell them they don't have to buy books from Amazon for their Kindle. Or they are asking an uncertain question about if you can. My belief is that a good percentage of Kobo and Kindle owners don't realise they can sideload. And a lot of the rest can't be bothered.
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