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grumbles · 02-08-2012, 05:41 PM

My point wasn't that there are no independent stores in Canada, it was the assumption that we just need one big online source of books period. And if we did, whose would it be? Branch plants of American companies are still American companies.

Kobo is Rakuten's presence in Canada. Kobo is now a foreign owned company. It remains to be seen what impact this may have.

I find the 80% figure VERY suspicious. I would believe that Amazon has 80% of the US market. I do not believe that the US represents 80% of the global market.

02-08-2012, 05:41 PM	#41
grumbles Addict Posts: 238 Karma: 1500000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Toronto Device: Pandigital Novel (Black), T-2 and 3, Nexus 7	My point wasn't that there are no independent stores in Canada, it was the assumption that we just need one big online source of books period. And if we did, whose would it be? Branch plants of American companies are still American companies. Kobo is Rakuten's presence in Canada. Kobo is now a foreign owned company. It remains to be seen what impact this may have. I find the 80% figure VERY suspicious. I would believe that Amazon has 80% of the US market. I do not believe that the US represents 80% of the global market.