[Richwood]

Even most B&N stores do not stock the high end 7.8" Nook. I was on line and B&N listed 3 stores within 100 miles of Reno, all in California, that had the Glowlight Plus in stock but not the Reno store. Only purchase option offered was to purchase on line and the free shipping was scheduled to take a week.

Walmart, the USA brick and mortar store Kobo retailer, does not list all models and some listed are only available on line or deliverable to a store for pickup. The Walmart web site also lists a couple of BOOX readers but it looks to me like they are on clearance. A Nook page listed 4 BOOX models at page bottom but the links for two are not even working. My last Kobo I ordered direct from the Kobo USA store and it took over a week to arrive via UPS surface shipment from Canada, signature required.

IMO one reason for Amazon's dominance of ebook reader sales in the USA is the ease of on line ordering with fast delivery and the Amazon listing descriptions are much more complete than the info available for Kobo and Nook.