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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
Remarkably, for the owner of Kobo, there isn't a peep on how to integrate offsite sales with onsite ones. Every Kobo sold in store ought to be tagged to the location and percentage of sales be earmarked back to that store. The store itself ought to promote titles to be sold in either physical or electronic medium. And the wifi editions should be able to receive a Kobo / Indigo blog and report events at the local store. The cross-selling opportunities are intense, inexpensive to implement and apparently overlooked.
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I ran into this lately. Went into my local Chapters and found a book I wanted for $24.99. Used my iPhone to check other options. On the Chapters web site, had the physical book, but no mention of getting it as an ebook. Knew they sold Kobo, so went to the Kobo site.
Searched under author name. Didn't show up. Searched under title, didn't show up. Tried another search for title and notices a suggestion popped up which did lead to it - but not in normal search. Ebook price $16.39. So Kobo was very hard to buy from.
But Amazon has the same book at a physical price of $16.99 and an ebook price of $9.99 with one click ordering for my Kindle app.
So I purchased from Amazon.
I really want to support my local store, but I can't see paying 64% more to do it.