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Originally Posted by artig
Kobo recently sent me a 50% code (4MQH79) which didn't work on any of the books I tried it on. It's now expired. Today they sent me something that could potentially be useful - a top-up of points sufficient for a VIP upgrade. I've never been a VIP, or looked into the advantages, but presumably it is worthwhile, even for someone who may only buy about 5 to 10 books from Kobo in a year? Almost exclusively non-fiction.
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Unless they are fairly expensive books I don't think it would be worth getting VIP membership for just 5-10 books per year.
The points are potentially worth about $2.50 per 1000 points, provided you use them wisely, so if you spend $400 + GST per year then it is worth getting VIP membership for the extra points alone.
If you spend less than that then you need to be able to make use of the 10% VIP discount and other features to make VIP worthwhile, and whether you can do that dpends a lot on the type of books you buy and who the publishers are.
I only buy fiction so I don't know much about the situation with non-fiction pricing, but in New Zealand some big publishers are discountable but price differently at different retailers. E.g. Penguin Random House fiction books are discountable in New Zealand, but their prices are usually lower at Apple than at Kobo, so a 10% VIP discount is not useful, you are better of just using Kobo's price match to get 10% off the Apple price, and you don't need to be a VIP to use price match.