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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You just don't get it. The OP wants to buy eBooks. So you have to give some information in order to do so no matter which the store.
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Absolutely correct. However, Odessa specifically mentioned not wanting to give information to Kobo and Adobe. In order to avoid giving information to Kobo and Adobe, one needs to avoid purchasing from Kobo, and indeed any vendor which uses Adobe DRM. I don't know Odessa's trust model beyond an apparent (and definitely justified) mistrust of Kobo.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Kobo doesn't delete paid for eBooks. I don't know where that information came from, but it's incorrect.
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Do you work for Rakuten? Do you have insider knowledge on what the corporation has done under its Kobo brand since it was purchased by them, or before? Would you be willing to swear in a deposition, under penalty of perjury, that under no circumstance has Kobo / Rakuten ever deleted a paid-for ebook? Further, would be willing to bet US$400 that never, from this day forward, that Kobo will never cause the deletion, either through direct action or service neglect, of purchased contents? Whoever loses has to donate to an agreed-upon children's literacy charity. I'll let you pick it.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Buying direct from the publisher can get you into trouble. In another post someone bought directly from one of the big publishers and ended up with an eBook that only worked with Glose and that's just a waste of money.
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In such a circumstance, I would expect a user as adept as Odessa to be able to navigate such a situation, or else request a refund,
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Buying from an indie eBook seller only works if the store has what you want.
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This is true of any store.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I see no reason not to buy from Kobo. I've never lost any eBooks and I've not had an issue with privacy.
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This isn't about you, or what you want, or what has happened to you, or what you care about. This is about Odessa asking a very specific question about how to minimize the data being gathered by Kobo and how to minimize the risk of Kobo, as a service, deleting content that they paid for. Whether that solution conflicts with other services that Odessa finds useful is certainly something for Odessa to weigh, but it doesn't change the answer. Whether you find the chances of Odessa's concerns coming to fact likely or unlikely does not change the answer to the question. The truth is, we don't know what's going to happen when Kobo shuts down. We do know what happened when similar services shut down -- Microsoft revoked access to the books that people purchased and issued them refunds.
We also don't know what data Kobo has access to. We can assume they have the same information that Amazon has with their e-readers -- and it's quite a lot. So, a person who is concerned about this benefits from knowing the whole story.