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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
However, the profit is not in the equipment sales, there is often even compensated from
- the profit from book sales.
By supporting a lending library, the device producer is hurting himself twice:
- No profit on devices
- Competition in book sales.
As a rational thinker, I would stop supporting a library with which I no longer have any connection.
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But the way that Kobo supports Overdrive is through their store. Each time someone borrows and/or reads a book using a Kobo device or app, they have some exposure to the store. Kobo might consider this good advertising. And they will have statistics for how often library users buy books. Plus, they might even be getting money for each download of a library book.
And the case I forgot: I bet there are plenty of occasions where someone tries to borrow a library on the device, see that it is out and there are several people ahead of them, and just buy the book instead.
And as a rational thinker, I would think very carefully before you removing function that might impact my customers. Especially function that I used to sell that product to those customers.
And the basic problem with this sort of discussion is that we know absolutely nothing about what is happening. We know the function exists, but, we don't know what the deals are behind the scenes, we have no idea how many people actually use the function, we have no idea what any of the companies involved are thinking.