Thread: How Come Amazon Is More Popular Than Kobo?
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Old 10-07-2018, 02:55 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by mathil View Post
It seems weird that you'd never even heard about Kobo, they've had stands in literally every Feltrinelli and Mondadori store for the past 6 years, and in most retail electronics stores. Feltrinelli and Mondadori don't even have their own ebook store, in fact -- they redirect you to Kobo because they have a partnership with them. I believe you, don't get me wrong, it just sounds really weird to me.
It's absolutely true that there's no advantage in choosing the Amazon store over Kobo/IBS/BookRepublic, as ebook prices are set by the publishers here. There's also the issue of libraries lending ebooks only in EPUB format.
May be I didn't pay attention when I visited Feltrinelli (Pisa, Firenze, Livorno) or Mondadori (Livorno, now closed) bookstore but it is true.
I converted myself into digital books only 18 months ago, and since then I started to research all about the argument and after all I bought a KA1 .
Now I prefer digital books.
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