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Our exchange rate ticker reads 1 CAD = 0.9993 USD this morning. With a little rounding, that looks like the Canadian and US dollars are at par to me; and we are celebrating with eBook deals for Canadians! Through economic meltdown, bank bailouts, and rising and falling oil...

The Kobo offices are a little sparse today. A few theories: • Extended holiday weekend • Developer exhaustion from getting our iPad app ready for launch day • Can’t peel themselves away from their iPad to come to work Probably some combination of the above. Road Trip!!! On...

A couple months ago we were so excited about the iPad launch we could barely sleep. Since then, it’s our developers who have been robbed of their sleep creating an all new Kobo HD eReader to match the revolutionary design of the iPad. Not only did we choose...

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...