{"id":11517,"date":"2012-08-16T10:28:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2012-08-16T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:28:59","slug":"rakuten-kobo-touch-leading-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=11517","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten Kobo Touch leading in Japan."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Rakuten takes Japan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/text\/nc20120815aa.html\" target=\"_self\">The Japan Times<\/a><\/strong> says relative newcomer to the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong>, <strong>Rakuten,<\/strong> is giving <strong>Amazon.com<\/strong> a run for the money in the Japanese eBook market with the release of their\u00c2\u00a0<span><strong>Rakuten Kobo Touch<\/strong><\/span>. \u00c2\u00a0<strong>Amazon <\/strong>has plans to bring <strong>Kindle <\/strong>to a market that is predicted will be hotly contested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Times says relative newcomer to the eBook Revolution, Rakuten, is giving Amazon.com a run for the money in the Japanese eBook market with the release of their\u00c2\u00a0Rakuten Kobo Touch. \u00c2\u00a0Amazon has plans to bring Kindle to a market that is predicted will be hotly contested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517"}],"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=11517"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11524,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions\/11524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}