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Quick money fads seems to be where it is at. Corporate, rather than Local control of stocked items (there are 10 items in a system, they stock only the most frequently used 5. Or the brand you liked and wanted more to match, is no longer carried AT ALL) Funny, I was just looking at the history of a store my Grandpa founded in a small town over 100 years ago. It is still open. AND it is the only one that has been there that long in the same family (3 generations). |
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Nevermind that Kobo was the technically superior device. The whole point was to hide the Kobo branding, anyway. |
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Hide Branding???
Mine say KOBO on the device. They did change the splash screen (shows less than 30 seconds on power up) |
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https://www.walmart.com/ip/Walmart-e...2?from=/search They're not Kobo gift cards, they're "Walmart eBook (by Rakuten Kobo)" eGift cards. In addition to the physical devices, I think they were really pushing the app as something you could read on whatever smart device (Android/iOS) that you already had, not just on the physical e-readers. |
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I saw them in two Walmart stores. One in North Richland Hills, TX and one in Nampa, ID. (I took pictures of the Kobos in North Richland Hills, BadeReader made use of them.) In Nampa they sold out the last of their Aura (second editions) for $15 each when they were clearing them out. Cases went for $5 each. That's the last I've seen of Kobos in B&M stores. Best Buy used to sell them in store. (They also used to have Nooks.) Now it's just Kindle, but I think they sell space to Amazon these days.
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Point is, it's an area where a soccer mom wouldn't mind plunking down $150 on a device she has never heard of and knows nothing about. Seems like it would be a good place to introduce Kobos.
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IMO it's rather "nteresting" that only Good e-Reader has claimed the Rakuten partnership with Walmatrt has ended. Their post claims that they've contacted Rakuten Kobo for comment and would update the post. Nine days later, they haven't done so.
https://goodereader.com/blog/electro...tnership-ended |
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