{"id":15933,"date":"2015-03-20T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15933"},"modified":"2015-03-20T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T19:07:36","slug":"rakuten-buys-overdrive-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=15933","title":{"rendered":"Rakuten buys OverDrive Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Rakuten buys OverDrive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/03\/19\/us-overdrive-m-a-rakuten-idUSKBN0MF0EN20150319\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><\/a> story says that online retailer\u00a0<strong>Rakuten<\/strong>, the\u00a0owner of Canadian eBook company <strong>Kobo Inc.,<\/strong>\u00a0has reached\u00a0out to purchase the American library eBook lending service <strong>OverDrive Inc.<\/strong> for about <strong>$410 million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reuters story says that online retailer\u00a0Rakuten, the\u00a0owner of Canadian eBook company Kobo Inc.,\u00a0has reached\u00a0out to purchase the American library eBook lending service OverDrive Inc. for about $410 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,4,5,8,6,14,13,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933"}],"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=15933"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15939,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15933\/revisions\/15939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}