{"id":18613,"date":"2018-01-26T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18613"},"modified":"2018-01-26T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T17:45:12","slug":"walmart-joins-forces-with-kobo-to-enter-ebook-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18613","title":{"rendered":"Walmart joins forces with Kobo to enter eBook Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/01\/with-rakutens-help-walmart-will-sell-e-books-and-audiobooks-later-this-year\/\"><strong>Ars Technica<\/strong><\/a> reports on\u00a0<strong>Walmart<\/strong> helping to reboot the <strong>eBook Revolution<\/strong> by inking a deal with popular\u00a0<strong>International eBook Retailer\u00a0Rakuten<\/strong> that will include the retail giant offering <strong>Kobo<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Aura-branded\u00a0eReaders<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>eBooks<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Audiobooks\u00a0<\/strong>in its U.S. stores and online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Walmart<\/strong> has been trying to expand its digital and online imprint to counter <strong>Amazon&#8217;s<\/strong> thrust into the bricks and mortar business world. With <strong>Apple<\/strong> also revamping its <strong>iBooks store and app<\/strong>, is it possible that <strong>Amazon&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0market dominance and exclusive proprietary conduct was to blame for the lull in <strong>U.S. eBook sales<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see. <strong>Kobo eReaders<\/strong> and <strong>eBooks<\/strong> will be available on <strong>Walmart&#8217;s<\/strong> website later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica reports on\u00a0Walmart helping to reboot the eBook Revolution by inking a deal with popular\u00a0International eBook Retailer\u00a0Rakuten that will include the retail giant offering Kobo\u00a0Aura-branded\u00a0eReaders,\u00a0eBooks\u00a0and Audiobooks\u00a0in its U.S. stores and online. Walmart has been trying to expand its digital and online imprint to counter Amazon&#8217;s thrust into the bricks and mortar business world. With &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=18613\">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":[7,3,11,4,5,8,6,25,12,15,14,13,24,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613"}],"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=18613"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18620,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18613\/revisions\/18620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}