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Originally Posted by Hellmark
You're not totally accurate. the Koboreader was never Borders exclusive, or even made by them. Kobo is a separate company, that is a business partner of Border's, because Borders subcontracted their ebook store to Kobo. The confusion comes in because Borders was one of the first stores to sell the Kobo Reader, due to that preexisting business relationship allowing for ease of establishing retail sales locations. Other stores quickly followed after Borders.
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Even if it wasn't a Borders exclusive, they sold ebooks through it and stocked it in their stores, didn't they? All I really meant was that this was a way that people could've done shopping at Borders w/o leaving their homes.