Rakuten makes bid for Canadian eBook retailer
Friday, 11 November 2011
Ron Knox
Rakuten, one of world’s largest e-commerce sites, has announced it will buy Canada’s Kobo for US$315 million, giving it control of the country’s largest electronic book and book reader retailers.
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