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Today we all got our first look at another beautiful product from Apple. It will be a great device for reading and Kobo will be on it from Day 1. You will be able to use Kobo’s existing iPhone app, and I’m excited to announce that we are...

Twas the night before iTablet, when all through the publishing house Not an executive was sleeping, they reached for their mouse They read many news reports signaling the end, For St. Jobs had a press conference he would soon attend; The techies were tweeting 140 characters or less...

Today is an exciting and long-anticipated day for us here at Kobo! We renamed, rebranded from Shortcovers to Kobo, and launched a new web site and mobile apps early this morning. Kobo is an anagram of “book”, and a name that we think will resonate globally. Here is...

Exciting changes are happening right now at Shortcovers!!! We have changed our name from Shortcovers to Kobo. Kobo is an anagram of the word “book” and we think that it is a name that will appeal to readers around the world….plus we think it’s a catchy name! We’ve...

If you’ve seen the release, you’ll know we are adding 1.8 million titles to the Shortcovers catalog through a partnership with the Internet Archives. Through their own scanning efforts and through relationships with other public domain repositories, they’ve amassed an incredible collection of free public domain works. We...

The World Needs More Canada is a catchphrase we have used at Indigo and Shortcovers for a long time now, and the sentiment behind it is something we truly believe in. With that in mind, we are incredibly excited to announce that we’ve just signed an agreement to...

So many amazing things going on right now. Thousands of new books getting added every week. Over a thousand publishers sending titles. New apps in development. But while we’re getting bigger and better now, it’s worth taking a little time to talk about what’s missing from the current...

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks here at Shortcovers: We celebrated the release of the biggest eBook of the year We launched an insanely popular new version of our Blackberry application We added support for downloading ePub files for offline reading, or reading on your dedicated eInk...

Move over Stephanie Meyer! In just one day, Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol, sold more eBook copies than the last one and a half months of Stephanie Meyer’s hit Twilight series. On Shortcovers, customers can buy eBooks to read on any device – popular eReaders like...

In a few short hours, there will be only one place you can purchase and download the Lost Symbol eBook and read it on your iPhone, Sony Reader, Blackberry, Android Smartphone, Palm Pre, laptop, online, or pretty much anywhere else. Proving that Shortcovers means it when we say...