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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Without getting into the ethics or the economics, I'll simply say that having made the switch from Amazon US to a more local Kobo account nearly 3 years ago, I can count on one hand the number of times a book I wanted was only available on Amazon, not Kobo. Buying books directly available on the Kobo is as easy as doing so on a Kindle is. And, imo, the hardware is better value for money, in terms of features for price.
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The biggest advantage Amazon has over Kobo (that I've seen) is that (in the U.S. anyhow) Amazon has a lot more old history and religious public domain books that have been cleaned up and repackaged for a dollar or two and these are what I mostly buy on Amazon. So it's probably a bigger deal to me than others but, for my purposes, Amazon's selection is much better. Some of these "repackaged" books are DRM'd, but not all of them.