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[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Kobo is where it's at! It's Canadian and not owned by Amazon.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was Canadian, its owned by a Japanese company since 2010

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

They retained a large portion of their staff and are still headquartered in Toronto, though.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hate to knock it as a product, but I compared a lot of the books I bought on Kindle and - unless I'm missing something - the selection on Kobo seems quite limited in comparison.

It seems that Amazon is using Kindle Unlimited you lock authors into exclusivity. This reeks of monopoly abuse but of course nobody is going to do anything about that.

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Pirate the books and support authors another way