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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Kobo is also the company that ended up with the Sony customers way back when. That's why I have about 200 ebooks in my Kobo library and get daily emails from Kobo.
Kobo still hasn't really shown any indication that they are particularly interested in competing with Amazon/Kindle in the US. They seem happy to focus their efforts outside the US.
Just checked the Kobo site and they seem to have improved over the last year or so. I'm going to have to give them a try.
Hum, interesting just from the standpoint of a spot check, I see that Fry's Mythos is finally going to be released as an eBook in the US on August 27th. It's in the Kindle store, the Kobo store, but doesn't seem to be in the Apple store. Kobo does have some interesting bundles and Indies.
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I used to own Sony eReaders then Kobo eReaders exclusively but then I found myself in Manhattan and none of the stores sold them. They had a bestbuy that sold kindles and Barnes and Nobles that sold Nooks but no Walmarts. Walmart does not even carry Kobos anyway you buy them off the internet which makes it pointless for Walmart to sell them compared to Bestbuy and B&N as the latter stores have them on hand in the physical brick and mortar. Bestbuy used to sell both Sony eReaders and Kindles now Kindle has a monopoly there.
Why buy a Kobo , in the USA, from Walmart when you have to order it off the internet ? It kind of defeats the purpose of the walmart and kobo deal because you can order a kindle off the internet or buy one at bestbuy the same day.
Anyway, I can understand why Kobo is happy to focus outside the USA. Canada and several European nations have higher PISA scores and are more intellectual than America. America is anti-intellectual like the Roman empire meanwhile a Frenchman is more likely to have his nose in a book.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading.[1] It was first performed in 2000 and then repeated every three years. Its aim is to provide comparable data with a view to enabling countries to improve their education policies and outcomes. It measures problem solving and cognition. [2]
The 2015 version of the test was published on 6 December 2016.[3]. The results of the 2018 data collection will be released on Tuesday 3 December 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PISA