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Originally Posted by Solicitous
I have had this niggling feeling in the back of my mind that Kobo has slowly been losing direction. I can only talk about being here in Australia, but given the number of retail partners I still havent seen a Vox, Arc, Aura or Aura HD for sale in any store, and online some of their partners don't even show the Aura or Arc for sale. Kindles on the other hand are advertised a lot harder and in stock compred to Kobo devices.
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In the US, the terms of hardware sales, for indie bookstores, were really, really bad. I don't know if that was the fault of Ingram, Kobo, or the ABA, but the terms gave some retailers no option but to return unsold hardware within the first, very small "no risk" window. And that was just the rollout of the Glo and mini.
Then came the Arc which was not competitively priced, and as we all know now, was a black hole of support neediness with a crashing launcher and whatnot. (I love my original Arc, and still use it several times a week, but I personally opined to an indie bookstore owner that he should not even think about selling them, given the retail terms, the glut of 7" wonders on the market, and the caprice of consumers when it comes to simple things like not proving an SDcard slot.)