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Originally Posted by Gandulf
Am I just being silly in thinking this is all kinds of wrong?
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In the United States there used to be separate car dealers for each brand of auto, even in small cities. If a dealer wanted to "move up" from a smaller brand to a larger one (like American Motors to Chevrolet), he would be required to sell his old dealership (at least on paper). It was considered a conflict of interest by the auto manufacturers for dealers to sell their competitor's cars. Sometime (I think in the '80s) this changed. I guess the auto manufacturers came to the realization that a successful dealer for another brand could also be a successful dealer for their brand. So then you started seeing the same dealers name for several brands of cars (almost a complete monopoly in some cities). Which, at the time, seemed really strange to me.
As for the same distributor for Kindle/Kobo in South Africa... I would think that if the current distributor is not selling Kobos, Kobo would be able to pull their contract. But to do that they would probably need another distributor to take its place, so that's probably why it hasn't happened.
Have you looked at the possibility of buying a Kobo from TechInn.com? Supposedly they ship to South Africa (although it looks like they currently only have the Libra and Forma available).
https://www.techinn.com/#fq=id_tiend...o)+asc&start=0