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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I doubt Kobo abandoned the USA due to concerns about anti-intellectualism. Why would they team up with Walmart if that were the case?
More likely, Kobo struggled to find a partner in the USA once Borders closed and Kobo has been seeking an entryway back ever since.
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nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. -H.L Mencken
You could be right or maybe not :
Amazon's Kindle e-book reader will fail, Steve Jobs says, because Americans simply don't read. From The New York Times:
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
He said that back in 2008. The kindle was at it's most popular around 2010-2011 but Amazon is such a big company it can afford to support an ailing product line with almost no significant impact on their overall bottom line but that does not mean the Kindle is currently a success :
"There is a growing negative sentiment towards e-readers. ...
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Tom’s Hardware believes that e-readers are catering to a diminishing audience. “More than one-quarter of U.S. adults read no books in 2016; of the 74% who did, some read a single book “in part.” The average U.S. reader finishes from four to 12 books per year, depending on whether you want to go with the median or the mean. The number of people who read, and the amount that they read, have both been steadily decreasing since the early ’80s.”
https://goodereader.com/blog/electro...ards-e-readers
https://www.amazon.com/Age-American-...s%2C266&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Age-American-...gateway&sr=8-1