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Old 07-21-2025, 10:44 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
It's a puzzle. Rakuten is huge company*. Only Amazon, of ereader sellers, has more resources. Pocketbook and Onyx are the next two and much less resources. Bigme, reMarkable, Meebook and others are tiny.

[* Rakuten once #2 OEM TV maker]

It's unclear how much of that they share with Kobo, though. My experience with acquisitions is that the acquired company is expected to flow money upwards to the parent company, but rarely does money flow down from the parent company to help support it.
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