Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Rakuten Kobo
The 20 closest ebook retail alternatives to Rakuten Kobo, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Rakuten Kobo? The closest matches are Barnes & Noble, Audible and ThriftBooks. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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- k = 20
- Sites searched
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01 · Entity
About Rakuten Kobo
Rakuten Kobo kobo.com
Challenged | Kobo.com
Wikidata: Canadian subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten
Summary by Claude
Kobo sells ebooks and audiobooks through its online store and makes e-reader devices, with reading apps and a Kobo Plus subscription for unlimited reading and listening.
- Who it’s for
- Readers and audiobook listeners
- Business model
- Ebook and device sales, subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
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 (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Verifying your connection...
American book retailer
Very close cos 0.901 - 02
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.
Very close cos 0.899 - 03
book e-commerce website
Very close cos 0.897 - 04
OverDrive: Free ebooks, audiobooks & movies from your library.
Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.
Close cos 0.892 - 05
AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles
Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.
Close cos 0.889 - 06
Wayfair.com - Online Home Store for Furniture, Decor, Outdoors & More
Shop Wayfair for A Zillion Things Home across all styles and budgets. 5,000 brands of furniture, lighting, cookware, and more. Free Shipping on most items.
Close cos 0.887 - 07
South African e-commerce company
Close cos 0.885 - 08
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Close cos 0.883 - 09
Shoes, Sneakers, Boots, & Clothing + FREE SHIPPING | Zappos.com
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
Close cos 0.883 - 10
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
Close cos 0.882 - 11
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.
Close cos 0.881 - 12
Client Challenge
American online music distributor
Close cos 0.881 - 13
EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions
Close cos 0.879 - 14
American multinational technology company
Close cos 0.880 - 15
Polish retail company
Close cos 0.880 - 16
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Close cos 0.880 - 17
Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Close cos 0.880 - 18
Coveo: AI-Search for Enterprises: The AI Relevance™ Platform
Generative search & relevant recommendations. The leading platform for GenAI, AI agents, commerce, customer service, workplace & website experiences.
Close cos 0.875 - 19
O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training
Build the skills your teams need. Give them the O'Reilly learning platform and equip them with the resources that drive business outcomes.
Close cos 0.877 - 20
Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
Close cos 0.876
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to kobo.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Rakuten Kobo uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Rakuten Kobo is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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: a563192f3c9b5c73-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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Rakuten Kobo adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Atlassian · not on kobo.com 14/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- Apple Business · not on kobo.com 9/20
- GlobalSign · not on kobo.com 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on kobo.com 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Canva · not on kobo.com 7/20
- DocuSign · not on kobo.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on kobo.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on kobo.com 6/20
- Proofpoint · not on kobo.com 5/20
- Adobe · not on kobo.com 5/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on kobo.com 5/20
- Fastly · not on kobo.com 5/20