From GoodEreader:
Carrefour is one of the largest supermarket chains in France and they have been involved in the e-reader space since 2013. The company has announced that it is closing their digital bookstore and suspending their relationship with Bookeen, who provided devices to them under the Nolim brand. This is going to result in over 2,400 people losing their jobs.
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The French ebook market will generate $442 million dollars in 2018 and 9.2% of the population reads digitally. The vast majority of users purchase their e-readers and ebooks via two companies; Amazon and Kobo. Kobo has a strategic relationship with numerous booksellers such as FNAC and Auchan. Amazon continues to be the most popular device.
Link to the rest at GoodEreader
And you couldn’t really get into it, as an indie. It was on distributor channel lists, but picky about what it carried.
“curated”
“curated”
… itself to death it seems …
If you look into aged whisky you end up seeing 6 yo malts with pretty good nuances and 20+ ones that only taste like the wood they were in.
Could put the same example with curated pork, but it would be more difficult to check for most of you.
Take care.
This gives me the impression they were picky enough that readers couldn’t find stuff they wanted to read, which means books didn’t sell well for this company, which is probably why Carrefour is discontinuing offering ebooks.
Which is all kinds of weird. Carrefour is not what I’d call posh. If they curated their food or soaps offer the same way…
Take care
Ouch ! I am French and I wasn’t even aware that Carrefour had an ebooks business.