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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...

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...