Kobo or Apple for e-books? What’s better for keeping profits local? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca

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I want to buy open source drm free e-books however I see Kobo that is a Canadian subsidiary owned by a Japanese Company while Apple is American with some operations based in Canada, California is closer to British Columbia however they often use closed standards.

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[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

I'm confused, are you talking about buying the e-reader, or the books?

For books, you can try looking for much more local options: in Quebec you have a leslibraires.ca for example, which is a consortium of small libraries. Their books do have some form of DRM though, I believe.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

Kobo supports OverDrive, which is a system that some (not all, but some) libraries use to manage ebook loans.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

Thanks! I will be checking that out!

Another awesome thing Quebec has!

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