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Kobo, a global eReading service, today announced plans for its application to be preloaded on the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet, giving users easy access to the Kobo experience including Kobo’s store of more than 2.2 million books. Earlier this week, Kobo also announced plans for an industry-first social eReading...

At BlackBerry® DEVCON 2010, Kobo announced the development of an industry-first social eReading experience and released a video of the social reading app in action. Kobo, a global eReading service, demonstrated during the keynote presentation how application developers will be able to leverage the new BBM™ (BlackBerry® Messenger)...

Kobo, a global eReading service, today announced that it is supporting Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) during the film festival in Toronto. Kobo is proud to announce that until the end of September 2010, it will donate sales from the celebrity book lists to APJ, a charitable...

In response to a need for reading materials, Kobo, a global eReading service, is proud to announce that it is sending 150 new Kobo eReaders – loaded with best sellers and classic books – to the Canadian troops currently serving in Afghanistan. “Reading materials are hard to come...

Kobo, a global eReading service, today announced that Fairmont Gold guests will have access to Kobo eReaders featuring a library of new and bestselling Random House books. The Kobo eReaders are now available at select properties in the US and Canada for guests staying on Fairmont Gold, a...

Kobo, a global eRead­ing ser­vice, today an­nounced avail­ab­il­ity of its pop­u­lar iPad ap­plic­a­tion in all mar­kets where iPad is avail­able. Ad­di­tion­ally, Kobo today re­leased re­gional ver­sions for Canada, UK and Aus­tralia and an­nounced a New Zea­l­and ap­plic­a­tion is com­ing soon. The re­gion­al­ized ap­plic­a­tions, built spe­cific­ally for the iPad...

Kobo, a global eRead­ing ser­vice today an­nounced the launch of its first In­ter­na­tional eBook store with Bor­ders Aus­tralia, a sub­si­di­ary of REDgroup Re­tail. The Bor­ders Aus­tralia eBook store will give Aus­tralian con­sumers the abil­ity to read eBooks any­time, any­place on the device of their choice. The Bor­ders eBook...

Kobo, a global eRead­ing ser­vice, today an­nounced that the Kobo eReader is avail­able for pre-or­der in the U.S. at Bor­ders on­line at www.​borders.​com/​koboereader, and will ship in time for Father’s Day. The new Kobo eReader offered through Bor­ders is a styl­ized, easy-to-use, af­ford­able eInk device that comes pre-loaded...

Kobo, the global eBook re­tailer, today an­nounced sup­port for ded­ic­ated eRead­ers with a new ap­plic­a­tion avail­able through its “Powered by Kobo” part­ner pro­gram for hard­ware man­u­fac­tur­ers and re­tail­ers. Kobo’s ap­plic­a­tion provides a world-class eRead­ing ex­per­i­ence and store­front and will be em­bed­ded in lead­ing eRead­ers launch­ing in 2010. The...

On the heels of a major fund­ing an­nounce­ment and re-brand, Kobo (pre­vi­ously Short­cov­ers) today launched in the UK. Kobo is an eRead­ing ser­vice for smart­phones, tab­lets, net­books, laptops and eRead­ers. Kobo’s use of open stand­ards like EPUB and its unique cloud-based ser­vice en­ables con­sumers to build their ebook...