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Old 05-07-2018, 06:34 PM   #1
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Kobos at Wal Mart.... still happening?
This was announced in January, and though it did not list an impending date, I assumed something would have happened by now if it were going to.

Why make a splashy announcement and then do nothing until everyone has forgotten about it.

Anyone have some inside scoop? I'd love to buy one here in the USA, without having it shipped from Canada.
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Old 05-07-2018, 06:43 PM   #2
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This was announced in January, and though it did not list an impending date, I assumed something would have happened by now if it were going to.

Why make a splashy announcement and then do nothing until everyone has forgotten about it.

Anyone have some inside scoop? I'd love to buy one here in the USA, without having it shipped from Canada.
I had the impression that this wasn't going to happen until at least this Fall (Autumn), maybe not until Christmas time. There's a lot to get ready. I keep checking Walmart's website for hints but, so far, no go. There's more to the Walmart / Rakuten alliance than Kobo readers, so I'm pretty sure it's still on.
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Old 05-07-2018, 07:07 PM   #3
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This was announced in January, and though it did not list an impending date, I assumed something would have happened by now if it were going to.

Why make a splashy announcement and then do nothing until everyone has forgotten about it.

Anyone have some inside scoop? I'd love to buy one here in the USA, without having it shipped from Canada.
because it was always more a pr stunt than a money-making endeavor?
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Old 05-07-2018, 09:28 PM   #4
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because it was always more a pr stunt than a money-making endeavor?
I don't think so. The Walmart CEO wants to compete with Amazon online. I think he sees this as one way of doing it.
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I'd love to buy one here in the USA, without having it shipped from Canada.
I realize you may have reasons for not wanting to buy online from Canada, but if you buy from Chapters etc (as opposed from Kobo.com which will charge you in US dollars) with the exchange rate on the dollar you can save a nice little bit of money even after shipping.
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I realize you may have reasons for not wanting to buy online from Canada, but if you buy from Chapters etc (as opposed from Kobo.com which will charge you in US dollars) with the exchange rate on the dollar you can save a nice little bit of money even after shipping.
$178 from Chapters, including shipping, for the H2O, and it came fast.

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Old 05-08-2018, 08:45 AM   #7
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I don't think so. The Walmart CEO wants to compete with Amazon online. I think he sees this as one way of doing it.
He's competing by saying he sells ebooks, not by actually selling them. No one sells a lot of ebooks (other than Amazon), and it's going to stay that way because a half dozen of the largest suppliers won't allow price competition in the ebook market.

And even if they did, Kobo sells Epub. That is the HD-DVD in a market where everyone has settled on Blu-Ray, or Kindle.
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Old 05-08-2018, 10:17 AM   #8
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Maybe they working the software part out so that you can use your walmart account to buy the ebooks. But ill take a kobo over a kindle any day.
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This was announced in January, and though it did not list an impending date, I assumed something would have happened by now if it were going to.
I think that's overly optimistic for such a large corporation. There would also need to be reason to start promoting it. I also expect that the absolute earliest we would hear/see anything from the Walmart side would be mid-Fall (in prep for Holiday season).
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He's competing by saying he sells ebooks, not by actually selling them. No one sells a lot of ebooks (other than Amazon), and it's going to stay that way because a half dozen of the largest suppliers won't allow price competition in the ebook market.

And even if they did, Kobo sells Epub. That is the HD-DVD in a market where everyone has settled on Blu-Ray, or Kindle.
?? – Not selling them yet, but the plan (announced) is to co-brand the Kobo market and sell books on Walmart's web site (as well as in-store). I don't know how many Kobo books and readers Walmart will sell but I'm pretty sure it will be more than what Kobo is currently selling in the United States.
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Maybe they working the software part out so that you can use your walmart account to buy the ebooks. But ill take a kobo over a kindle any day.
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I think that's overly optimistic for such a large corporation. There would also need to be reason to start promoting it. I also expect that the absolute earliest we would hear/see anything from the Walmart side would be mid-Fall (in prep for Holiday season).
I would imagine there's a lot to do to set up integrating Kobo with Walmart and co-branding on the website. Just getting enough Kobos to put a few in each store is going to take some time. I hope it works out. I would love to see Amazon get some competition.
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And even if they did, Kobo sells Epub. That is the HD-DVD in a market where everyone has settled on Blu-Ray, or Kindle.
Sadly, the library systems don't seem to agree. Outside than the USA, it's epub with the very rare pdf.

I do wonder about your use of everyone. How many companies other than Amazon supply ebooks solely in mobi/AZW3/whatever other Kindle format comes to mind.
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Sadly, the library systems don't seem to agree. Outside than the USA, it's epub with the very rare pdf.

I do wonder about your use of everyone. How many companies other than Amazon supply ebooks solely in mobi/AZW3/whatever other Kindle format comes to mind.
Uh, we're talking about the consumer market, not libraries.

And by "everyone" I mean consumers, who are spending most of the money. Duh.
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?? – Not selling them yet, but the plan (announced) is to co-brand the Kobo market and sell books on Walmart's web site (as well as in-store). I don't know how many Kobo books and readers Walmart will sell but I'm pretty sure it will be more than what Kobo is currently selling in the United States.
So Walmart will increase Kobo ebook sales from diddly squat to about equal to a rounding error on Amazon's Kindle ebook sales.

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So Walmart will increase Kobo ebook sales from diddly squat to about equal to a rounding error on Amazon's Kindle ebook sales.

yippee
I'll guess we'll see what happens. You may be surprised at how many people are getting tired of Amazon taking over everything.
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