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Rakuten Buys OverDrive
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I wonder if they will link Kobo eBooks to OverDrive automatically.
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I wonder how they'll deal with Kindle.
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That sound good for customers, two big eReader platforms with access to a large amount of content is better than having only amazon for sure.
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Interesting quote
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Not a good idea... this gives excellent incentive for them to link the two together and banish Amazon. Leaving we Kindle owners entirely out in the cold.
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Only in the US. Here in BC, Canada, Kindle owners are already out in the cold when it comes to library books. Epub and PDF are the only two formats that seem to be supported for ereaders.
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Here Kindle is a closed ecosystem with no support for the majority of eBook stores or libraries. I'd be more worried about Rakuten trying to emulate Amazon and making Kobo into a similarly closed system. |
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Calibre,
No need for panic. |
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Oddly I see that Rakuten is now branding its Play.com site as Rakuten.co.uk here in the UK. The odd thing is they don't seem to be selling Kobo readers through the site.
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![]() Wait, you do realize I put the word "entirely" in there for some kind of actual reason, yes? On account of... "entirely" implies that before it was "partially"? (And because there are plenty of people who get/got paid library cards for US libraries.) |
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OTOH, I have a tendency to believe in profit being the motive driving most corporations. If Overdrive was making a profit supplying Kindle format ebooks to libraries in the USA, I can't see Rakuten changing that without a compelling reason given the American ereader market is dominated by Amazon. OYAH, I find the tendency of denizens of the USA to believe they inhabit the center of the universe to be humourous. Recent example was a review of ereaders where 4 Amazon Kindle and 3 B&N Nook devices were the only entries in the eInk segment. Of course, just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you... |
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