Rakuten to launch e-book service July 19

Rakuten to launch e-book service July 19

TOKYO, Japan - Rakuten Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Hiroshi Mikitani holds Kobo Inc.'s proprietary Kobo Touch e-book reader during a press conference in Tokyo on July 2, 2012. Rakuten, a major Japanese online shopping mall operator, said it will launch an electronic book service in Japan on July 19 using Kobo, the Canadian e-book marketer it acquired in January.

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