{"id":9799,"date":"2011-11-09T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2011-11-09T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T16:25:08","slug":"indigo-sells-kobo-for-315-million-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9799","title":{"rendered":"Indigo sells Kobo for $315-million US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Indigo sells Kobo to Rakuten Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.com\/article\/703651?bn=1\" target=\"_self\">Toronto.com<\/a><\/strong> reports that Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest book retailer, <strong>Indigo<\/strong>, is selling <strong>Kobo Inc.<\/strong> to Tokyo-based <strong>Rakuten <\/strong><strong>Inc.<\/strong> for <strong>$315-million<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This after Indigo reported a second-quarter loss of <strong>$40-million<\/strong>. No reason to worry for all you <strong>Kobo eReader<\/strong> and <strong>Vox Tablet<\/strong> owners since <strong>Rakuten <\/strong>has the resources to give\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Kobo <\/strong>some staying power on a playing field that counts giants <strong>Amazon <\/strong>and <strong>Apple <\/strong>as competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto.com reports that Canada\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest book retailer, Indigo, is selling Kobo Inc. to Tokyo-based Rakuten Inc. for $315-million. This after Indigo reported a second-quarter loss of $40-million. No reason to worry for all you Kobo eReader and Vox Tablet owners since Rakuten has the resources to give\u00c2\u00a0Kobo some staying power on a playing field that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=9799\">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":[3,4,5,8,12,15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799"}],"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=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9807,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions\/9807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}