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It’s been a busy month at Kobo HQ. In addition to readying our iPad application and announcing a new device, we have had to renegotiate contracts with five of our biggest publishers to adhere to the new agency model. I’m very happy to say that we have the...

As I mentioned in a previous post, the period after agency would involve some weirdness as we all work to iron out our systems. Here is the first manifestation of that. Starting April 3, because of the intricacies of HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster’s state and local tax...

Incredible. The last day of our Party Like It’s $9.99 extravaganza broke every single-day-sales record we had. We sold more than twice as many books yesterday as we did the day before (our previous best-day-ever!) In fact, we sold as many books yesterday as we did in the...

The response to our Last Days of Discount has been fantastic. Yesterday was our best sales day ever as Kobo customers made the most of these final pre-agency days. It’s looking like today is going to be even better! And we saw a surge of new users trying...

From next week onward, April Fool’s Day will also be known as Agency Day or “The Day We Turned the eBook Market Upside Down and Shook It Until It Rattled”. Not that this will necessarily be a bad thing, but there will definitely be some changes. We’ve been...

It’s hard to believe that it has been almost two months since we first saw The Steve demo the iPad over a grainy web cam feed from our offices here in Toronto. At the time, we announced that we were planning to be the first 3rd party eReading...

Earlier this month I posted about the incredible change we have already seen in the eBook space in 2010. A colleague asked for some of my predictions for the rest of the year. This was my response: 1. A $99 eReader. Controversial I know, but device makers are...

The Plastic Logic Que debuted at CES, along with 100 other eReaders, at astronomic prices. How much do you think $799 eInk readers will be selling for on eBay next year? Kindle Apps! Developers drop Android and start coding hot new Sudoku apps with the Kindle Development Kit...

It’s official. Price is the only thing that publishers or retailers can think about right now*. It was foremost in everyone’s mind when the focus was on the positive and negative effects of $9.99. It is predominant again as I have my umpteenth phone call with a publisher...

Publishing is usually an industry of steady, small-scale drama — the poaching of authors, the movement of editors from house to house, a libel suit or injunction, the occasional merger or bankruptcy. But every once in a while, the ground shakes and the industry starts to remake itself...