Bought an ebook through Rakuten (a Japanese company) for the first time just now.
Tiny Experiments by Anne Laure Le Cunff, has just been released.
I bought it at the Rakuten website, as it was the only non-US channel listed at the publisher’s page.
It was a few Euro cheaper there than on Bol.com, the Dutch platform that uses Rakuten’s Kobo ecosystem for their ebook sales. However I could use my Bol.com credentials to pay at Rakuten. The book showed up in my Bol.com library immediately despite not having been bought there. The file carries Adobe DRM. I downloaded it and added it to my Calibre library tool.
TIL: compare prices for ebooks between Rakuten and Bol, as they are interchangeable channels, and purchases end up in the same place.
I should probably keep a page here in this site listing the purchase options other than Amazon.