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Old 07-28-2018, 09:29 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by Apparition B5 View Post
Yeah, that's the main reason why I dropped my Kobo VIP subscription. None of the books by the big five publishers are eligible, and the vast, vast majority of the independent eBooks I'm interested in are solely available for sale on Amazon. It's a shame, but for whatever reason(s), most independent eBook authors (including big ones like Lois McMaster Bujold), do not put their eBooks up for sale on Kobo, Google Play Books, etc.
When I do a search for Lois McMaster Bujold on Kobo and I find 3 of her series listed, all of which are available for points. The only series in ebook format I find on Amazon that is not also available on Kobo is the Penric series along with the Vorkosigan series novella The Flowers of Vashnoi. Oddly both the Penric series and The Flowers of Vashnoi are available on both Kobo and Amazon in audiobook (well, will be available in October for TFoV) format.

A quick search with a blank search term for English language books comes up with 3,235,548 ebooks. Adding points to the search criteria drops this to 1,778,214. Changing the search criteria to free comes up with 1,296,668. So of the 3,235,548 English language ebooks available, 3,074,882 are available either for points or free (~95%). While playing with the search, there are 1,944,134 ebooks available for $5.00 Cdn or less while 256,188 ebooks cost at least $40.00 Cdn. The expensive end has 232,022 non-fiction being by far the largest subset with fiction collections (box sets) being most of the fiction.

Removing the English language criteria, changes the results to 4,895,979 ebooks, 2,300,830 available for points and 1,820,491 are free so ~84% are available either for points or free.
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