{"id":11309,"date":"2012-07-17T09:25:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11309"},"modified":"2012-07-17T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:25:13","slug":"rakutens-kobo-touch-about-to-conquer-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11309","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten&#8217;s Kobo Touch about to conquer Japan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Kobo Touch to launch in Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/news\/japan-primed-e-book-rise.html\" target=\"_self\">The Bookseller<\/a><\/strong> reports that the fairly recent acquisition of <strong>Kobo eReader<\/strong> by <strong>Japanese <\/strong>tech-giant <strong>Rakuten <\/strong>is about to pay in spades with the popular eBook Reader&#8217;s <strong>July 19th<\/strong> Japanese launch offering access to an eBook service touting <strong>30,000 Japanese titles<\/strong> and over <strong>1-million English eBooks<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that <strong>Amazon <\/strong>is moving up the release of its\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Kindle <\/strong>for the <strong>Japanese <\/strong>market states the obvious about the fierce battle to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bookseller reports that the fairly recent acquisition of Kobo eReader by Japanese tech-giant Rakuten is about to pay in spades with the popular eBook Reader&#8217;s July 19th Japanese launch offering access to an eBook service touting 30,000 Japanese titles and over 1-million English eBooks. The fact that Amazon is moving up the release of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11309\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11309"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11309\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}