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Rakuten buying eBook firm OverDrive for $410 million in U.S. push

March 19, 2015 publisher 158-3-million, 530-million, deepening-its, focus-towards, innovative, japanese, movie-project, overdrive, rakuten-cafe, sharing-economy, strides-made, teppei-kasai, tokyo, united-nations

By Teppei Kasai TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese online retailer Rakuten Inc is buying U.S. eBook company OverDrive Inc for about $410 million, deepening its push into the U.S.