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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Please tell me who Kobo's official US reseller was from the day Borders closed until Walmart started selling them?
Ordering from Kobo or Chapters would be importing the reader from Canada, which is what I remember people having to do before the Walmart partnership. If you are going to count that, you can import readers from anywhere, so everything is available everywhere.
And honestly, I'm pretty sure you are misremembering Kobos being sold on Amazon, unless they were sold by unofficial third party resellers.
I do remember looking for my first Kobo (this would be the 6" Kobo Aura). I don't remember anyone anywhere suggesting that Amazon sold Kobos. I wound up buying a refurb from a third party on eBay.
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1) you stated Kobo hadn’t sold ereaders in the US until recently. I’ve already shown that was wrong and stated that they did have a period of time where they were not selling in the US. I’ll even be generous and give that time as 2013 to 2018 (Kobo did exist in indie bookstores and Best Buy etc at some point after Borders collapse). So that’s 3 years ish of selling in the US prior to 2018 and Walmart. So please please tell me how in the world you can claim they weren’t sold here until recently.
2) please actually read what I said, I set the sale of kobo via amazon, kobo, and chapters as an aside not counting it as being sold in the country but they were still available to this country at a reasonable rate. Unlike Bookeen.
3) regardless of them being on Amazon officially or only through third party sellers they were still sold in the US prior to “recently” when they partnered with Walmart.
Honestly this is drop dead simple. You could buy a Kobo in the US at some point prior to 2018 and not just as some limited time pop up stand event. Thus your claim that they were only sold recently is incorrect.