Kobo: "Beat Amazon." Not so in Japan. - Page 2

auspex · 09-02-2013, 11:27 PM

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Originally Posted by fjtorres

The most likely places to find ebook readers in use in the US are the family room, the patio, and the bedroom. Reading is a private activity.

What about the #1 reading location? I keep promising to build a stand for the bathroom.

Of course reading is a private activity - and there's no better way to keep your privacy on a bus than to read!

I have to admit that whenever somebody asks me about my Kobo, they don't have their e-reader with them

spellbanisher · 09-02-2013, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by BWinmill

Trains and busses aren't a major form of transportation in Canada either. Yet the people who do use mass transit are as likely to be using an ereader as a pbook in the cities that I have visited.

My previous post is ambiguous. i didn't mean to say that people who use trains here don't use ereaders. I meant that i don't use trains or buses, which i guess would have been simpler just to say in the first place.

I did use the bus frequently when i was an undergrad in Santa Cruz and never saw an ereader. But that would have been around the time ereaders were just taking off.

samhy · 09-03-2013, 04:18 AM

Amazon is soooo easy to use (for physical products) in Japan when you don't have a credit card! In comparison, try to do that in England or France

I don't what are the shares of Amazon vs. Rakuten on those kind of products, but I bet Japanese people used to go to Amazon to buy things before the launch of the Kindle.

I also agree with Canuck_in_Japan that a 5% gap between Amazon and Kobo is nothing to be ashamed of, yet it would look better for Kobo to be n°1 in the Rakuten country

AnemicOak · 09-03-2013, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

The current market shares according to Tokyo-based MM Research Institute:

Amazon: 38.3 percent
Kobo/Rakuten: 33 percent

I wouldn't be surprised if this was within the margin of error and they're pretty much dead even.

DStyle · 09-03-2013, 08:42 PM

If KOBO don't get their trouble sorted, they might have the same faith as Sony Ericsson. Maybe it's just my imagination.

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09-03-2013, 04:18 AM	#18
samhy Wizard Posts: 1,824 Karma: 9503859 Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: France Device: (Sony (J) PRS 650), Kobo Mini, Kobo Glo HD (broken), Kobo Clara BW	Amazon is soooo easy to use (for physical products) in Japan when you don't have a credit card! In comparison, try to do that in England or France I don't what are the shares of Amazon vs. Rakuten on those kind of products, but I bet Japanese people used to go to Amazon to buy things before the launch of the Kindle. I also agree with Canuck_in_Japan that a 5% gap between Amazon and Kobo is nothing to be ashamed of, yet it would look better for Kobo to be n°1 in the Rakuten country

09-03-2013, 08:42 PM	#20
DStyle Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 25278 Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: New Zealand Device: KOBO Aura HD	If KOBO don't get their trouble sorted, they might have the same faith as Sony Ericsson. Maybe it's just my imagination.

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