Also, the more Kindles there are in Canada, the more people will buy from Amazon, rather than Chapters/Indigo. made the OverDrive system more appealing in that country, since Kindle is the market leader in the U.S., but Kobo is estimated to have nearly half the Canadian market and it wouldn't make sense for the company that owned Kobo to make the Kindle more desirable for Canadians. The distribution deal with Amazon for the U.S. In 2015, Rakuten also purchase OverDrive (who now makes Libby) and OverDrive manages most e-book lending for libraries in the U.S. The Kobo company was purchased by Rakuten (a/k/a "the Amazon of Japan" by some) in 2012. That division was later spun off into a separate company. The Kobo was developed in Toronto by a division of Indigo Books and Music. I little bit of history will help explain this.
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