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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I seem to remember Borders selling Kobos (or Sonys?). But at any rate, Borders went belly-up in 2011. Kobo withdrew from the US after that.
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Then why’d you claim they weren’t sold in the US until recently.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Kobo didn't sell readers in the US until very recently.
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They were sold in the US in 2010 which was the time mentioned above (and beyond though how far beyond I can’t say for sure). I know when I got the Aura H2O people were still finding some stores in the US with Kobos though the numbers had been dropping. But that still would allow for stock to have dwindled over 4 years.
Kobo and Walmart teamed up in 2018. So really there were around 4 years Kobo weren’t being sold in the US (not including Amazon) and even through those years they were readily available via Amazon, Kobo, or Chapters.
I’ll clarify on the store, one which sells content in the language of the country buying the device. Bookeen appears (unsurprisingly) to only sell French books. Kobo, Nook, and Amazon are slightly more varied. Though it’s been awhile since I checked Nooks offering of non English books I recall they had some Spanish books. And I’d imagine when they themselves were pushing into other markets besides the UK that they offered books in those languages.
Of course getting the rights to sell costs money and bookeen likely didn’t like the figures they saw for foreign markets.