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I think the idea was to compete with Amazon directly in eBooks but it looks like they gave up on that scheme early on. Too bad, I would have liked the idea of sending people to Walmart to buy Kobos. They also seemed to want to push VuDu as their "Prime" video competition, but that seemed to have fizzled out also. I wonder if the Clara I bought from Walmart will lose its Walmart branding? (I can make it go away, but it comes back from time to time.) For a short while I had a Walmart/Kobo account that they kept wanting me to merge with my Kobo one, but I closed out that account within a few months and logged in with Kobo, even though Walmart was the first choice. Maybe they can buy spaces in Best Buy like other retailers do. Last edited by rcentros; 04-10-2024 at 05:26 PM. |
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Yeah, I seem to remember merging my Walmart and Kobo accounts when they asked me to. But I've only ever logged in as Kobo. My Clara also has the Walmart branding. If I remember, I do see it if I completely power off the Clara (which I very rarely do).
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I've been looking for a cheap book to buy since this topic went up, so I could test if I would still get the email from Walmart.com whenever I buy a Kobo ebook (even though it's always been through a Kobo account / Kobo app). But this has been a slow week for books on sale that I want...
EDIT: Just grabbed a Philip K. Dick book on sale for the sake of testing. Still getting an email receipt from "Walmart eBooks" (although the sender is noreply@kobo.com). Amusingly, though, half the URLs directly embedded into the email no longer work. As long as it's purely cosmetic and everything still works through Kobo, I don't really care whose entity is on the signature. I'll be sad if Walmart.com stops selling Kobo Gift cards in the future, though, because I was planning to buy a Kobo for a friend's daughter and suggest the gift cards as a way to give her some autonomy with book choices without having access to her mother's credit card. Last edited by Cactus Chef; 04-12-2024 at 11:40 AM. Reason: Add more details |
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I was looking forward to this I thought it’d be a good way to introduce ereaders to people. But it just never happened. I do remember their Vudu. That was a “blink and you missed it” kind of thing. |
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Vudu may still be around? I remember my father-in-law telling me something about they buy a Blu Ray they get some code and it adds it to their Vudu account. That was a year or two ago, I think. Looks like it's been renamed Fandango at Home. Last edited by ZodWallop; 04-14-2024 at 12:44 PM. |
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Walmart bought Vudu in 2010. (I guess, originally in 2005, there was a Vudu Box, something like a Roku). A lot of Walmart's DVDs included an activation code for the digital version on Vudu. But in 2020 they sold Vudu to Fandango, who have just recently renamed it Fandango at Home. So it looks like Walmart gave up on both Vudu and Kobo.
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Walmart actually owned Vudu for 10 years, but I think they really gave it a push in their stores when they made the agreement with Rakuten to sell Kobos (about 2018). The deal to become a Kobo dealer also involved some kind of deal for Walmart in Japan with Rakuten (can't remember the details any more). |
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I wish that Kobo could find/keep a B&M partner (here in the U.S.). I've purchased 3 (maybe 4) of my Kobos through B&Ms.
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I agree. I have never had a Kobo. I only saw one in a Walmart and I had to hunt for it. I probably would have bought one if they had been more visible. I agree, they should have been with the books instead of tablets.
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I don't understand why Walmart could not continue to sell Kobo ONLINE, even if the store display was reduced to a simple Kobo Giftcard. Both my Kobo's were shipped (store pickup), anyhoo
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It could be Kobo that ended the partnership.
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