Download or read book Marketplace 3.0 written by Hiroshi Mikitani and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mikitani, founder of e-commerce giant Rakuten, has seen the next battleground in the Internet. Today's major e-commerce players are building borderless platforms that are overturning the brick-and-mortar model, and changing the way local businesses think. But is this good or bad?