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Originally Posted by thomasn75
Kobo is owned by massive Japanese company so they can afford to experiment and great they are. Whereas Sony would appear to be in a death spiral. No innovation. They have now had two years to come up with something good. They can't have spent much time on the t2.
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Rakuten's KOBO purchase was seen to fend off Amazon's Kindle invasion. By far, KOBO operates on its own schedule. The KOBO promotion is very limited in Japan, also the Japanese ebook library is small. Rakuten is really a Buy.com, or Amazon-ish company, it has been acquired oversea companies as expansion plan. Big companies often get into many different business, this is just another example.
You can read this small document from Rakuten
http://global.rakuten.com/corp/inves...r_2011_all.pdf