Waterstones completes exit from e-books market

Britain's largest bookseller stops selling digital books and signs deal with Kobo

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Waterstones is to pull out of e-books after announcing that from this summer onwards it will refer its online customers instead to the Japanese digital book specialist Kobo.

Existing online customers were notified of the impending change at the weekend. From 14 July, they will receive email instructions informing them how to transfer their online library, the BBC notes. New customers will simply be redirected to the Kobo website.

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