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Originally Posted by theducks
I find it a bit odd that Walmart did not, at least, continue to offer Kobo, sinc IN STORE sales and support were almost non-existent (Minimal working displays, if any). Both of mine had to be ordered for pickup. So why not still offer Branded Kobo Books Gift cards and online book sales.
How much server space does the Catalog take?  Any profit is still PROFIT (I studied my Ferengi rules of acquisition  )
There is still the issue of convincing Readers, that an e-reader is just a convenient to use book. (  I offered one of my devices to my sister who had stacks of paper books, to try. Nope! She was not alone in this refusal.  I never understood.) |
The Ferengi run Amazon, not Walmart.
(I
really miss DS9. Such a great show. Quark could probably run Amazon better than Jassy.)
IMO, the reason for the failure may be as simple as a change in upper management. If the empty suit at Walmart HQ who believed the partnership was a good deal got replaced by another empty suit who didn't, that person probably convinced the rest of upper management the deal wasn't something that would be "profitable enough" to justify the floor and warehouse space.
What doesn't make sense to me is that Walmart seemingly has decided to go "all in" on Walmart+. They weren't going to truly compete with Prime Video because they sold Vudu four years ago. The video part of the membership is Paramount+. I would have thought they'd want to partner with an ereader/ebook retailer to compete with Prime. Maybe that was the original intent of the deal and the two companies just couldn't get the $$ to work out.