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Amazon: US international corporation of huge size. The Kindle operation is money down back of sofa. The main Kindle things are not the ereader, but Subscriptions & sales of ebooks. Over 90% of English ebooks world wide. Various governments investigating.
Rakuten: Japanese. Owns Canadian Kobo, which owns previously German owned Tolino. No investigations. No emails at all in over 10 years to working email addresses created to register the Kobos. Rakuten was #2 in volume on TV screen sales (other labels) a few years ago. Quite large company. Sold off Overdrive.
Pocketbook: Small Ukrainian startup that only does ereaders. They moved to Switzerland.
Onyx Boox: Small Chinese company that only does ereaders.
Boyue seems to have phoenixed into Meebook. Even smaller Chinese company only doing ereaders.
Nook: More disadvantages than Kindle and too tied to Barnes & Noble.
reMarkable: Small Nordic company with a Digital Paper Tablet (i.e., a PDF reader inspired by Sony / Fujitsu PDF Digital paper Tablets). One product only. The reMarkable 2 is quite old now and a cost reduced revamp of the original reMarkable. Brilliant at marketing.
Bigme: Very expensive tiny company that seems to think the public should pay in advance for their product development. Who are they?
Others: a bunch of Chinese sellers selling really ancient Chinese ereaders.
Most of the other original ereader makers are gone or don't do ereaders.
Open source Eink ereaders: Any I've seen are junk.
Kobo is best for privacy, metadata support and Calibre integration, FW support and changing to earlier versions. Also works fine never turning on WiFi.
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