{"id":246301,"date":"2018-01-26T08:57:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=246301"},"modified":"2018-01-26T08:59:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:59:06","slug":"kobo-and-walmart-in-e-reader-alliance-against-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/246301-kobo-and-walmart-in-e-reader-alliance-against-amazon.html","title":{"rendered":"Kobo and Walmart in e-reader alliance against Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart and Rakuten have reached an exclusivity agreement that\u00a0will see co-branded Kobo e-readers introduced through Walmart, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/1\/25\/16934960\/walmart-rakuten-kobo-e-reader-ebook-partnership\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Verge reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kobo was founded in Canada and sold to Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten in 2011 &#8211; which rushed to beat Amazon to its local market with e-readers.<\/p>\n<p>Rakuten has made similar deals to place Kobo e-readers in bookstore chains, including with WHSmith in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Its alliance with Walmart will also see the companies launch\u00a0an online grocery delivery business called Rakuten Seiyu Netsuper in Japan later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Seiyu is a Walmart-owned supermarket chain in Japan which operates a grocery delivery service through local stores.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/176347-kobo-aura-one-e-reader-takes-on-the-amazon-kindle.html\">Kobo Aura One e-reader takes on the Amazon Kindle<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart and Rakuten have reached a new exclusivity agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":176355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1099,23713,11665],"class_list":["post-246301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-kobo","tag-rakuten","tag-walmart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246309,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246301\/revisions\/246309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}