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Originally Posted by taming
I'd like to know what those are. Can you share some of this information? I haven't seen anything about it, but I do not follow the ins and out of the Japanese financial markets.
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Rakuten runs a series of Amazon-like onlike shopping malls aggregating products from a variety of online stores along with their own subsidiaries. But not Kobo. Where Amazon takes every oppotunity to promote Kindle to their shoppers, Rakuten barely acknowledges Kobo exists, much less tries to send customers their way.
(Its been discussed at the EbookReader Blog and DigitalReader Blog.)
When Rakuten revamped and renamed Buy.com to Rakuten.com, a couple months back, I checked to see if Kobo was linked anywhere but it wasn't. Don't know if its changed but a search there for "ebooks" offered up at the top a print book on how to self-publish ebooks...for Kindle. On the hardware side they offered up a bunch of very old Ectaco readers and an out-of-stock pink Kobo reader from a third-party vendor.
Not a hint of integration or support for Kobo.com.