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This is my tenth anniversary as a reader of ebooks. I got in early because, as a science-fiction writer, I’d long been expecting this technology: after all, Captain Kirk read reports off a wedge-shaped device back in 1966, and the astronauts in the 1968 film 2001: A...

A Few Words For Kobo Readers by Michael S. Hart FounderProject Gutenberg, Inventor of eBooks Co-Founder The World eBook Fair “It’s The Year Of The eBook!” Hardly any doubt of it as I walked into Borders twice this week, each time to see dozen of Kobos and their...

There have been many stories written in the past few weeks in blogs and traditional media about the future of bookstore apps on iPhone and iPad. A succession of events and announcements — Sony’s rejection from the App Store, the Apple subscription announcement, changes to App Store Review...

It’s been a phenomenal and exciting year building the only pure-play global eReading service – fulfilling on our goal of bringing eReading to everyone. With over 2.4 million registered users from around the world we have ascended to astonishing heights in a very short time. As the market...

eReading Pioneer Announces Impressive Growth and Outlines Vision for 2011 TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kobo, the only pure-play global eReading service built on an open platform, today marked its one-year anniversary by outlining significant growth and industry milestones as well as its vision for the future of eReading. Today’s news comes...

Kobo Launches eReading Gift Solutions Just in Time for the Holiday Season. TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kobo, a global eReading service, today announced the Kobo online Gift Guide just in time for the Holiday season. Available in early December, and only from Kobo, the gift guide will provide an assortment of...

People we meet often ask us about our open platform: What does it mean? How does it work? Why should it matter when thinking about eReading? And more importantly, what’s really in it for the book lover? A few days ago, we were at the Sheisconnected conference and...

On Monday we started shipping the first Kobo Wireless eReaders to customers who pre-ordered the device in Canada, and starting next week it will be available for purchase at Borders and one of the largest discount department stores in the U.S. – Walmart! Building on our relationship with...

About three weeks ago we enabled our customers to pre-order our Kobo eReader directly from us at koboereader.com. We thought it was a good idea to help customers buy eBooks on kobobooks.com and to be able to conveniently purchase our reader from their homes. As of today, Kobo...

We have some good news for our Apple readers today as we released updates to all our iApps – iPhone, iPad and iPod iTouch. Our apps on these three platforms have had more than 36 million page reads in the past month alone! So what’s new? We know...