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Originally Posted by tomsem
I'm curious how Sony owners outside Canada/US view this, since I assume Sony isn't pulling the plug on the stores in EU, UK, Japan. Do you think they're making enough money to keep competing in those regions? Or do you think they are preparing to hand that over to Kobo as well?
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For the moment, at least, the bigger concern is for those of us outside the US with US Sony accounts and a "local" Kobo account. Am wondering if my remaining Sony credit will transfer to my existing Kobo account.
The Sonys are still available here, both through our wholesale supplier (we have a computer business) and in the electronics/appliance stores. Sony has never had a book store here in France, to my knowledge - I guess you just buy books through the regular retail outlets (basically, the stores that sell the readers) - that is, unless you buy a Kindle, where you pretty much have to go through Amazon for the books.