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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
To be fair, the things that give me pause aren't things that are reported as problems. And it isn't the A/B testing Amazon is doing on the new cover lockscreen feature. That's not really an issue to me at all.
Kindle has nice features like X-ray and Goodreads integration and Send to Kindle. But I don't think those are features I would use.
But then I read about things like Kindle automatically updating book covers in your library whether you want it to or not. And if you use .mobi or .azw files you don't get Kindle's nicer formatting, or even hyphenated words.
And the ads. And making them device specific instead of account specific.. It just seems like the richest man in the world is nickle and dimeing people.
In the US, the Nook Glowlight 3, Kobo Clara and Kindle Paperwhite are all comparable devices. 300ppi, e-ink Carta screens. 8GB storage. But the prices aren't. And don't tell me about sales. They all have sales.
Kobo Clara (ad-free): $119
Nook Glowlight 3 (ad-free): $119
Kindle Paperwhite (ad-supported): $129, (ad-free) $149
What are those ads supporting? |
Amazon's pocket book. They are king in the US so they charge more and they do.
A new Paperwhite in Canada (no ads btw) is $140 CAD which is roughly $112 USD. A Kobo Clara HD is $150 CAD or approx $120 USD. The Kindle is very unusual in Canadian electronics at being cheaper than the US counterpart when converted, usually it's roughly the same but generally still higher. Amazon doesn't have quite the foothold here as they do in the US as Kobo was introduced around the same time they started selling Kindles to Canadians and the Kobo was cheaper and distributed in the largest chain of book stores in the country. I think it was cheaper by a fair bit too. So Amazon is forced to be competitive on hardware to try and lock people into their ecosystem. US they don't have to be, the majority of eReaders there are Kindles and most people will buy a new Kindle to replace their old Kindle.