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Originally Posted by barryem
If I recall correctly Walmart stopped selling Kindles not because they didn't sell well but because people would buy the Kindle and then get the books from Amazon and since Walmart is one of the largest book sellers they were competing with themselves. At least that's what I remember from their announcement when they stopped selling Kindles.
This time around they seem to have arranged to get a piece of the book sales as well and that's probably what'd different this time.
Barry
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Sorry I haven't read ahead to see if this has been answered but when I saw this thread the following came to mind. For walmart to sell kindles it's like shooting themselves in the foot. Why? A walmart customer who buys a kindle will most likely (if not inevitably) create an amazon account to purchase books. Maybe, while browsing for books this customer will purchase stuff from Amazon he/she would normally buy at walmart. Each Kobo Walmart sells is one less potential customer for Amazon. At least for me, I didn't really think about buying stuff from Amazon until I got my kindle. Now, I get stuff from amazon all the time.