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Originally Posted by mirage
...There was a time when I could buy Kobo devices at my neighborhood bookstore. I wish their arrangement for the US were other than through Walmart. The Publishing Perspectives story linked to in the News thread says that Kobo has 10,000 brick and mortar stores selling their devices pre-pandemic. That's probably world-wide and the Walmart stores alone must account for a significant chunk of that. ...
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As far as I know, Walmart no longer has
any Kobos in their stores. Some stores did carry the Kobo Aura 2 for a while, but they cleared those out last December and I think that was the end of any in-store Kobo stock.
Rakuten, themselves (separate from Kobo), now has a presence in the U.S. where they sell Kobo products. It looks like their site is designed to compete directly against Amazon and Walmart. And, unlike Walmart, it looks like they have Claras in stock.
https://www.rakuten.com/shop/kobo/pr...iABEgIDFfD_BwE
The Kobo never went on sale at Rakuten, however.