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Rakuten Kobo
Who runs Rakuten Kobo, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest ebook retail alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Audible
Measured from Rakuten Kobo’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Rakuten Kobo01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Rakuten Kobo
Rakuten Kobo kobo.com
Wikidata: Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Rakuten Kobo tracks
We couldn’t read kobo.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Rakuten Kobo
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Rakuten Kobo, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read kobo.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Audible | Listen to Audiobooks, Podcasts, & Originals
Try Audible free for 30 days. Discover best-selling audiobooks, free podcasts, and exclusive Audible Originals. Listen offline with the Audible app.
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Client Challenge
digital library
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American multinational technology company
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American book retailer
Very close - 05 Libro.fm SPC libro.fm
American audiobook distributor
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Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
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book e-commerce website
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Storytel International - Audiobooks and eBooks for everyone
Read in bed – listen on the road. Explore over 800 000 books and have a laugh, rewind, or gain a new perspective.
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Podimo: Listen to Podcasts and Thousands of Audiobooks
Podimo offers podcast only available in our app, thousands of audiobooks and a lively community of creators and listeners.
Very close - 10 Buecher.de buecher.de
company
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German book retail company
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Электронная библиотека MyBook — читайте книги в онлайн библиотеке. Новинки и бестселлеры литературы в библиотеке электронных книг.
В электронной библиотеке MyBook можно прочитать более 1125000 электронных книг. Для онлайн чтения доступны шедевры современной и классической литературы. Новинки и бестселлеры, отзывы, рекомендации, популярные авторы.
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Hugendubel Online-Shop: Bücher online kaufen | Hugendubel.de
Buchhandlung Hugendubel: Über 15 Mio. Artikel - Bücher versandkostenfrei online bestellen - Lieferung auch in die Filiale
Very close - 14 Books-A-Million booksamillion.com
bookstore chain
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Draft2Digital
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Walmart | Save Money. Live better.
Shop Walmart.com today for Every Day Low Prices. Join Walmart+ for unlimited free delivery from your store & free shipping with no order minimum. Start your free 30-day trial now!
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US-based online used bookseller
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Литрес – сервис электронных и аудиокниг, скачать в fb2 и mp3, читать и слушать онлайн на Litres
Литрес – цифровой сервис электронных и аудиокниг, а также другого контента: подкасты, спектакли, интервью – скачивай, читай и слушай на любых устройствах. На Litres вы найдете рейтинги лучших книг, отзывы, рецензии, рекомендации, популярные авторы и многое другое.
Very close - 19 HarperCollins harpercollins.com
Anglo-American publishing house
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Apple
Discover the innovative world of Apple and shop everything iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and Apple TV, plus explore accessories, entertainment, and expert device support.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Rakuten Kobo’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Rakuten Kobo uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Rakuten Kobo adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Rakuten Kobo’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 mx include:spf1.kobo.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com in…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577174ead20b73a-HAM
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX kobo-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 mx include:spf1.kobo.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com in…
- DNS hosting
- Google Cloud DNS NS ns-cloud-e4.googledomains.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=TPfQLJMxDmDJ7QLK1G7_9WKCyT33Zd4OKl8Y3xcVUmA
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=asza9zmotc5y3jf2vvxuox1fh4zwal
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Atlassian · not on kobo.com 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on kobo.com 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Next.js · not on kobo.com 7/20
- React · not on kobo.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on kobo.com 6/20
- Apple Business · not on kobo.com 6/20
- Google Workspace · not on kobo.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on kobo.com 6/20
- Proofpoint · not on kobo.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on kobo.com 5/20
- Canva · not on kobo.com 4/20
- Fastly · not on kobo.com 4/20