Thread: Why Kobo didn't focus only on the U.S., home turf of Amazon
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Old 07-10-2017, 02:10 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by filmo View Post
Borders Book Stores sold Kobo and other ereaders about 1 year before they started closing excess stores on their way to going out of business. This was about 2011 when Kobo Wifi was released. By late 2013 Kobo readers were gone from US stores including Walmart, Target, Best Buy and others that had sold them. Their is now no US affiliate selling Kobo readers.
Family Christian still sold them after Best Buy dropped them (until they went bankrupt in 2014 or 15) so now it's just up to a few indie book stores that still participate. The only one I know of still offering them is http://www.politics-prose.com but there may be others. It would be really nice if Kobo could/would come up with a larger US B&M presence, but I'm not sure how advantageous it would work out to be for them.
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