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Originally Posted by Mivo
I'm a little unhappy about this, if that's how it turns out. I've had three Kobo readers and I'm overall satisfied with them and prefer to stick to brands that work for me.
It will probably be easy enough to import Kobos from other EU countries, but I don't agree with their approach and may opt for embracing a different brand altogether. I already found it off-putting that Kobo released the 32 GB Auro One only in Japan and the US. At some point one starts to feel like a second class customer, and that's not a good feeling.
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Try being a Canadian. Sheesh... Kobo is located here and didn't release the KA1 LE here. I could understand releasing the 32GB version for the Japanese market first since manga is very popular there but not having any public plans to release the KA1 LE in other countries? That is a bit hard to understand.
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Originally Posted by Mivo
I don't see what the benefit for Kobo is. In a market like this, brand identity matters, and fragmentation of this type doesn't strengthen the Kobo brand.
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Kobo gains improved access to the German market where Tolino is a major player and they gain access to Tolino's backend software which gives a decent chance that Kobo's firmware will soon support a cloud storage option. That seems to be a feature that quite a few people want going by comments on Mobileread and elsewhere.
Comparing my Tolino Epos to my KA1, they both have 7.8" 300DPI screens and the same HZO waterproofing but I find I prefer the software on the KA1 to the software on the Epos. If nothing else, the font support on the Epos is definitely not up to Kobo's font support and Tolinos's current software is not epub3 compliant though that support is currently only needed for those few epub3 ebooks that are real epub3 using epub3's capabilities -- most epub3 ebooks I've seen are an epub2 with the epub3 nav.xhtml navigation document added.