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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
The Aura ONE can. Since Rakuten owns both Overdrive and Kobo, I don't know why they haven't introduced this to all their devices. Seems like obvious synergy.
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I would have said (and did say
) that it was likely to be rolled out to the other devices at some point after release of the KA1. At this point I've become doubtful that it's going to be. There doesn't seem to be any technical reason that it couldn't be turned on in the firmware for other devices but they haven't yet and since the devices basically run the same firmware there shouldn't be a lot of extra development costs. That leads me to believe that there is some economic reason (i.e. license fees) or a marketing reason they haven't done this. I doubt it's to drive buyers to the KA1 as my guess is it sells more based on the other features than that. I'd have to think they'd gain more net device sales from a smaller device with OD integration than keeping it to KA1 alone.