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Kobo was thrilled to partner with The COLLECTIONS during World MasterCard Fashion Week supporting seven Canadian designers as they brought their inspirations to life on the runway. Notable names, Chloé comme Parris, Sid Neigum, Thomas Bálint, Laura Siegel, and Klaxon Howl, as well as new designers, LACERDA, and...

Today, the Kobo team released the latest update for the Kobo Arc. This new firmware update, known as Android 4.1 - Jelly Bean, includes some very cool new features for Kobo Arc that will improve search, touch responsiveness, and help to better organize and streamline your information. Arc...

Today, in Bussum, Netherlands, our Managing Director of EMEA, Jean-Marc Dupuis, kicked off the eReading and Tablet Event with a keynote address to more than 300 publishers, library representatives, booksellers, and content aggregators. Jean-Marc shared insights about the history and future of the E Ink and tablet markets...

Is it time to spring clean your life? While it’s easy to say you’ll cut back on the sweets or start running every morning, breaking and building habits is complicated – habits are hard-wired. We were lucky enough to sit down with habits expert, Charles Duhigg, whose book...

We’re celebrating Kobo’s partnership with THE COLLECTIONS for World MasterCard Fashion Week by giving readers a chance to win a Kobo Arc and a one-of-a-kind, hand crafted case made by one of seven up-and-coming Canadian fashion designers! Inspired by their current collections, Chloe Comme Parris, Sid Neigum, Thomas...

Three aspiring writers now have an opportunity to advance their craft with Kobo and Curtis Brown Creative. The companies have introduced the Kobo Writing Life™ scholarship to provide tuition fees for three writers to attend courses with the UK’s premier literary and talent agencies writing school at Curtis...

Design is a key part of Kobo’s DNA. We create our eReading experience around the love of books and the desire to have Readers lose themselves in stories. The attention-to-detail with which we create our experience – like Kobo’s soft-touch quilted back of Kobo’s devices or the pixel-perfect...

What does it take to beat out 4,662 entrants from 1,865 manufacturers across 54 countries? A love of reading! We’re thrilled to let you know that the Kobo Arc – a tablet designed for Readers – has won the red dot: Product Design 2013 award. The red dot...

Beth Kery loves romance – the more emotionally laden the better. She is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty books and novellas, best known for her mega-hit Because You Are Mine, an eight-part serialized erotic romance. Beth’s new serial novel, When...

Ontario-born historian Andrew Preston was recently named the 2013 winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for his book, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy, an account of how religion has impacted American foreign relations and diplomatic policy. The author, who currently...