Opening this month, the Kindle Store Australia has angered Australian booksellers, who, in response, began to promote the Kobo, to fight against the player ebook Amazon. The Australian Booksellers Association, which lists 600 players in the library slams their new competitor, considered a serious threat …
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The Kobo Touch
This is the end of small business, chain bookstores, online stores: in short, it’s the end of the world, with perspective, Amazon’s monopoly dreaded . Consumers, who will benefit for discounts practiced by American actor forgets once became the sole seller of books on the area, it will have the upper hand in the market, deplores the ABA.
Its director, Joel Becker, told The Australian that the movement to support Kobo, owned by Japanese company Rakuten is the only response. Only Kobo offers resellers an online sales solution to fight against the domination dreaded Amazon. And it is not found in a proprietary ecosystem with Kobo, as may be the case with the Kindle. Any ebook purchased is not lost, as it is downloaded …
The other key point lies in tariff appeal: in the long term, this solution alleged dumping is not viable. “ Many books are sold below their cost, which is great for the time for customers. But once they have all the market share they do not continue to sell at a loss. This creates an unrealistic expectation of what a book should cost “says Joel Becker.
proprietary environment …
A dealer in Sydney, Pages & Pages bookstore, had planned to bury the hatchet, offering its customers to trade in their old against a Kindle Kobo, and lots of purchase of $ 50 AU. Jon Page, general manager, said his shop has multiple devices Kobo, allowing the playback of purchased on a multitude of platforms files, including works with DRM. So that, conversely, a Kindle book is readable in the Kindle environment.
emphasize one fact: if Amazon has applied to deploy a multitude of applications and solutions reading to found his file on Android or iOS devices, desktops and other , it nevertheless we are here in a golden prison. And therefore, a locked environment for readers, who will never leave.
“ I watched with great consideration Kobo partnerships established with associations of booksellers around the world. And I am very pleased that the Australian Booksellers Association now counts among its partners’ says Jon Page. “We signed immediately. ”
animosity against Amazon is spreading around the world, while at the same time, Apple has been convicted in the United States for agreement does not seem such a hated rival. And for good reason: its pricing policy on digital books is not nearly as aggressive, and most importantly, the Cupertino company does not sell paper books. As such, retailers feel more able to compete …
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Kindle Store arrived in Australia without ebook reader or tablet
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self-publishing: the responsibility rests content aggregators
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Australia: Beware of Amazon discounts, more than Apple
The latest model of reading light Kindle Paperwhite only sold by Amazon, now landed the first echoes of a possible new release. According to our colleagues Techcrunch, the main innovation is to look on the side of the screen with an impressive resolution of 300 dpi, enough to crush the amazing Kobo Aura HD 264 dpi and that hurt like the Kindle (212 dpi) since now a big fat half. 
