E-book competition heats up

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INDIGO BOOKS & MUSIC INC. $15 (Toronto symbol IDG; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 24.7 million; Market cap: $370.5 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.4; Dividend yield: 2.9%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.chapters.indigo.ca) is now selling its Kobo e-book reader through Future Shop and Best Buy stores across Canada. Selling the Kobo through other retailers should spur greater demand for Indigo’s e-book downloads. However, the device faces rising price competition from other e-book readers, and from Apple’s iPad tablet computer. Indigo is a hold. hold…