Comments on: Rakuten Kobo snaps up Shelfie book-bundling service https://teleread.org/2017/04/06/rakuten-kobo-snaps-up-shelfie-book-bundling-service/ Blog on ebooks, publishing, libraries, tech, and related topics Fri, 07 Apr 2017 20:34:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steve Vernon https://teleread.org/2017/04/06/rakuten-kobo-snaps-up-shelfie-book-bundling-service/#comment-3701 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 20:34:18 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=153829#comment-3701 Reblogged this on YOURS IN STORYTELLING… and commented:
Kobo grows again.

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]]> By: jeffmcneill https://teleread.org/2017/04/06/rakuten-kobo-snaps-up-shelfie-book-bundling-service/#comment-3700 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 16:12:59 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=153829#comment-3700 Don’t have to be big and flashly like Amazon? Come on, Rakuten is trying to be exactly that, an ecommerce behemoth, just like Amazon.

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]]> By: David Rothman https://teleread.org/2017/04/06/rakuten-kobo-snaps-up-shelfie-book-bundling-service/#comment-3699 Fri, 07 Apr 2017 13:47:42 +0000 http://teleread.org/?p=153829#comment-3699 Obviously a big issue is, What’s this mean for Amazon?

Perhaps it’ll expand its discount-on-E-if-you-own-the-paper-edition arrangement to include paper books bought elsewhere–just like Shelfie. Would it be that hard for Amazon to come up with a similar app? Including something for surveying pbook shelves?

Meanwhile as a Kobo ereader owner, I’m delighted by the news.

David

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