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Old 09-03-2013, 12:27 AM   #16
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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
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Old 09-03-2013, 12:28 AM   #17
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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.
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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
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The current market shares according to Tokyo-based MM Research Institute:
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  • Kobo/Rakuten: 33 percent
I wouldn't be surprised if this was within the margin of error and they're pretty much dead even.
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