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Originally Posted by HarleyB
A & R sort of sell the Kobo.
Many of the stores were owned by the same parent company that owned Borders and consequently they are now closed. A few independantly owned stores still survive.
The 3 stores near me (one of which I have had a long relationship with) don't display the Kobo and will only order one for you if you prepay. They really would prefer that it didn't exist.
Dick Smith (who are now selling the Kindle) have massive signs up and a display right at the front of the store - similar to how Borders used to display the Kobo.
I had never heard of Collins bookstore prior to reading here that they were to stock the Kobo - google tells me there are about 50 in Australia over half of them in Victoria and the rest scattered around regional Australia. There isn't one in Brisbane a city of about 2 million people and there is only 1 in Balmain in Sydney.
If Kobo wants to continue to exist in Australia they need to get a distribution network organised before everyone buys a Kindle.
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Much the same here in New Zealand. Whitcoulls stock(ed) the wifi and original but no sign of the touch. They have recently been sold as part of the Borders/A&R group changes. Borders in NZ is shutting for good.
Dick Smith has full page ads in the paper for kindle and kindle is now even sold in the biggest supermarket chain here - pick one up with your bread and milk.
Kobo have no chance of competing against that unless they hurry up and do some heavy promotion. But somehow, I don't think we even feature on their map.