In the UK it seems that the sale of ebooks is not flourishing or does not want to flourish. If we recently heard the news of the Barnes & Noble closure in the UK, now it is the Sainsbury company which also closes its ebook section, but in this case your customers will be transferred to Kobo Rakuten.
This has been expressed by the Sainsbury and Kobo companies. For a period of time Sainsbury Books users will be able to enjoy both services until finally everything is transferred to Kobo Rakuten and where they will stay with their ebooks.
Sainsbury is a commercial company, as is Amazon or Carrefour where in addition to books and ebooks, other electronic and food products are also sold, these products are what have made the name grow in the United Kingdom and also have given the belief that the company could be a tough competitor for Amazon in the United Kingdom.
Sainsbury already welcomed Nook customers in the UK
The information has been such that even Barnes & Noble herself trusted her to pass her British clientsIn other words, after leaving the United Kingdom, Nook's clients were left in the hands of Sainsbury, but even that was not enough for the ebooks section to be viable.
Today Amazon controls 95% of the country's ebook market, In other words, almost all British ebooks are sold by Amazon, something that seems to change as Kobo Rakuten is gradually taking over a higher share and with its eReaders things could change but we may know that in the annual reports. In any case it seems that the confrontation between Amazon and Kobo Rakuten is more than evident in Europe but Will it be the same in all parts of the world? What about 'national' companies and eReaders?