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Old 08-15-2012, 03:11 AM   #16
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This was in the Japan Times this morning:
Despite flaws, Rakuten is 1-0 against Amazon in Japan's e-book wars

By AKKY AKIMOTO
Rakuten, Japan's largest online shopping mall — and a head-to-head rival of Amazon Japan that also hopes to expand its business globally — launched its first e-book reader, the Rakuten Kobo Touch, on July 19, getting the jump on the long anticipated Japanese release of Amazon's Kindle.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nc20120815aa.html

It is mainly a recap of what happened with the KT introduction in Japan to date, concluding with a question as to how soon a Japanese Amazon Kindle will be in Japan? Depends on the publishers' whims.
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