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Walmart Teams Up With Rakuten To Offer 6 Million eBooks, Grocery Delivery

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The collaboration between Walmart and Rakuten will focus on online grocery delivery in addition to eBooks, industry news source Chain Store Age reported. Taking the place of Walmart’s current online grocery offering in Japan, the service will launch in the second half of 2018. percent who use Amazon.

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eBook: What’s Next In Payments & Commerce

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As digital payments gained ground, banks and FinTechs collaborated and online lenders rode the rocky shoals of investor sentiment … it may have seemed like there would be little left for 2017 than for the industry to catch its collective breath. But what looms ahead in a year that has barely dawned?

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With Millions Trapped At Home, Books Are Back, Baby!

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It may be half a world away, but the belated and successful initial public offering (IPO) of Australia’s largest online bookseller this week has sent investors and industry watchers alike scrambling to figure out exactly what the heck is going on in an industry that has seen more than its share of ups and downs in recent years.

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Payments 2016: The Year Of Online And In-Store Convergence Via Mobile

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PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of Online And In-Store Convergence Via Mobile. Download the eBook.

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Can A Startup Compete With Amazon For Online Book Sales?

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market today, accounting for over 90 percent of eBooks and audiobooks, and around 42 to 45 percent of print sales. If anything, he noted, they see themselves as reinforcing the industry. But eCommerce startup Bookshop has decided to do exactly that – despite the fact that Amazon is the biggest force in book sales in the U.S.

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How The Pandemic Accelerated The Shift To Digital Commerce

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In a 2019 PYMNTS eBook much like this, we made predictions for eCommerce in 2020 and the next decade. For many, this meant expanding new channels of eCommerce, such as buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), delivery offerings, mobile order-ahead and more. Lasting Lessons: AI-Driven Fraud Protection Across the Customer Journey.

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Today In Data: Mexican eCommerce, Blockchain And VC Funding All See Growth

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Players like Amazon and Walmart are working to cut themselves a larger chunk of that pie, and they are doing so by introducing “hybrid payment systems” that accommodate cash-based transactions for online purchases. 39 | Number of global payments and commerce industry leaders who added their responses to the question “What’s next for 2018?”