Funny, our local Waterstones have stock, just arrived including cases (with & without lights) and PSUs...
All the boxes on the rack are EMPTY! Gosh, must tell the staff at ours to put £100+ items on self-service rack so people can help themselves...
And knowing people who work there... "never had a lot of liking for the idea..." is wonderful comment considering eReaders are the biggest ticket item and have turned over more than any other item stocked... main complaint is inability to predict stocking as Sony don't commit...
Once again, never seen a Sony in a locked cabinet in any local Waterstones... maybe yours is a small one with low staffing or one with many little rooms/cubbyholes that's difficult to cover...
Sony actually preferred to have a book retailer to handle their eReaders, something W H Smiths have been failing at for years... not that it'll make much difference as B&M book (certainly fiction) retail is probably on the way out...
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Originally Posted by carpetmojo
I don't think it's so much a push, more a clear-out of stock !
Our local W'stones has a sign on its (reduced size) ereader display saying it now only has accessories for 2 makes ( River + another, not Sony interestingly)
And all the boxes etc.. on the generic rack look like they've been around rather too long, and are empty anyway, and have one 350, & no 650's, and, yes, no accessories ............
And the £111 offer publicity has disappeared from ours......
And I don't think Sony signed up W'stones with any conviction, really - more named them as "preferred vendor" or some such...
And the chain never had a lot of liking for the idea, in my opinion !
Either way, they haven't what I would call "pushed" any reader much, 'cept when they only had Sony - behind a locked cabinet that you had to be "supervised" to access .........
Can't help thinking W.H.Smiths would have been a better bet - more "populist" !
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