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Old 04-14-2025, 08:47 AM   #938
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Originally Posted by Timboli View Post
That might not seem like much to folk, but since mostly swapping to Kobo in the last few years, I have gotten over 1,000 ebooks at Kobo. That then is the missed sales at Amazon ... a lot of ebooks, and the list continues to grow.

If I am not alone in having done that, with those sort of numbers, then Amazon has indeed missed out on a lot of sales.
To play Devil's Advocate: Amazon has prevented a lot of pirates*,**.

* I do not mean that Timboli is a pirate. I am refering to actual pirates (argh) who strip DRM and distribute.

** Yeah, yeah, yeah... We all "know" that DRM does not prevent piracy.
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