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Originally Posted by milady133
The problem for Kobo is they don't have the servers needed to support this. Amazon, Google and Apple are much more than ebook store companies, they sell cloud services, so adding cloud support for ebooks is not such a big effort, and they offer it for free because normally the libraries won't take more than 2G top for user (I'm not talking about outliers like some people here, but the average customer).
Kobo has some cloud support to allow users to synchronize the Kobo bought content, but adding support for sideloaded books would mean adding a lot more space to those servers, at their expense, because you're not going to pay for that, will you? For example, take a look at what Bookari charges for cloud support to synchronize your content (that is one reading app that I know offers that additional service). For big companies like Amazon, Apple and Google is small potatoes, but Kobo is not there.
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I would accept that argument if it weren't for the fact that both Pocketbook and the European Tolino system offer comparable services where users can upload their books to the companies’ cloud. The former does not even make money on books, the latter is a platform where multiple book vendors participate and pay for the service which was formerly provided by a German telecommunications company and is now owned by, wait for it, Kobo.
You are definitely correct in saying that Kobo is trying to save money, however, it is Kobo cheaping out, not me asking Kobo to provide something entirely unreasonable.