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Originally Posted by afa
Manufacturers -- particularly the larger ones like Amazon, B&N and Sony -- should offer more variety to consumers. The Kindle is a perfect example. At $189 you have quite a good reader with a strong feature-set (apart from poor format support)
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This is a fallacy. Kindle's "poor format support" is that offers DRM only for Kindle's mobi variant, azw. Amazon offers more commercial content than any e-book vendor; and most DRM content from other providers -- primarily ePub and PDF -- is available from Amazon in DRM Kindle format. So -- what difference does format make if all the same (and more) content is already available on the most popular device?
However, we are starting to get somewhat far afield from the "Questions for Kobo CEO". So let me ask one more:
"What are Kobo's plans to offer both DRM ePub AND DRM azw on one device?" Surely that would "solve everything" from the consumer point of view. Since Amazon has already made great efforts to extend its software to multi-platforms, what about a "dual-boot" option for Kobo?