From the perspective of the CEO and owner of Canada's largest bookstore company:
Thanks to
taming for posting this originally...
Audio interview with Heather Reisman of Chapters-Indigo
Look at the far right, toward the bottom:
http://www.cbc.ca/books/index.html
This interview is long, but worth listening to if you want a perspective from the CEO of a Big Box chain of bookstores. Reisman runs Chapters-Indigo in Canada, but I'm guessing that what she has to say applies to other chains in other countries.
Toward the end there is a discussion of the decision to sell Kobo to Raskuten.
Original thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=178882