by David Zax, Technology Review
Stateside, we tend to think of the e-book wars as mostly a clash between Amazon and Barnes & Noble, with Apple thrown in to the mix. Abroad though, it may not be that simple. TechCrunch’s Ingrid Lunden reports that the retail giant Tesco (it’s the third-largest retailer in the world after Wal-Mart and Carrefour) has bought Mobcast, a digital bookseller. Tesco shelled out a little over $7 million for the deal–more or less chump change for a company of its stature, actually. “We want our customers to have the widest choice in digital entertainment,” the CEO of Tesco Digital Entertainment Michael Cornish said in a release. “We are already one of the UK’s largest booksellers and Mobcast will help us offer even more choice for the large and growing number of customers who want to buy and enjoy books on their digital devices whenever and wherever they want.”
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429114/would-you-like-an-e-book-with-those-groceries/
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