Kobo Announces Kindle Fire Competitor, The $199.99 WiFi Vox Tablet
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In an effort to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire, e-reading company Kobo is launching a tablet of its own: The $199.99 Kobo Vox, a 7-inch A… Read more »
Kobo France Takes Run At Le Kindle
Four days after Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the French Kindle and accompanying Kindle store, rival e-book company Kobo announced that it’s… Read more »
Kobo Sues To Keep Its E-Reader Away From Borders Buyer
Borders was e-reading company Kobo’s first — and, so far, only — U.S. bookstore partner. And when it became clear in recent months that Bo… Read more »
Kobo To Sell E-Reader Through German Etailer redcoon.de
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Kobo, which launched its German e-bookstore in July and introduced the German-language version of the Kobo E-Reader just a few days ago, now… Read more »
Buy Sony’s New E-Reader, Get…A Coupon For One Harry Potter E-Book
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) has officially announced its new e-reader, the details of which leaked out earlier this week. It’s called the Reader WiFi a… Read more »
Why Isn’t Kindle Promoting Its Social Networking Features?
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Twitter is abuzz over the discovery of Amazon’s “new” Kindle social network, but these features–sharing notes, following and finding users… Read more »
In Response To Apple Restrictions, Kobo Releasing HTML5 App
After being forced to remove the bookstore from its iOS app, Kobo has begun working on a web-based HTML5 app to be released later this year. Read more »
Updated: Apple Forces Kindle, Nook, Kobo To Yank In-App Bookstores
See ya, Kindle app store: *Apple* has begun enforcing in-app purchasing restrictions for e-reading apps, with the Kindle, Kobo, and Nook and… Read more »
Stanford Math Professor Tests A New Book Publishing Equation
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When a section was cut from Stanford mathematics professor Keith Devlin’s new book The Man Of Numbers, Devlin could have pitched it as an ar… Read more »
Kobo Launches Germany’s Largest E-Bookstore, Beating Out Amazon
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Kobo may lag behind the Kindle in the U.S., but not in Germany. Tomorrow, in the first in a series of international rollouts for the company… Read more »
What We Learned About The Book Industry This Week
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We’d expected that Liberty Media’s bid for Barnes & Noble would be the most talked-about topic this week at BookExpo America, the largest tr… Read more »
New Stats: E-Reader Usage Growing Much Faster Than Previously Predicted
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Good news for the companies that announced new e-readers this week: The number of people in the U.S. who own an dedicated e-reader (not an i… Read more »
Kobo’s New E-Reader Aims to Turn Reading Into a Game
Websites like Goodreads have tried to make reading a more social experience by allowing users to keep track of and rate books they’ve read,… Read more »
Kobo Reveals Last Month’s Funding Round: $50 Million
Borders-backed e-books seller Kobo has disclosed the amount of the funding it raised last month and it’s pretty huge: $50 million. It also s… Read more »
Borders Adds Kobo WiFi Version For $139
Borders is stepping up the competition with Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) by adding the Kobo 2, an eReader with WiFi fo… Read more »
E-Reader Watch: Kindles Head To Staples; Borders Lowers E-Reader Prices
Target won’t be the only bricks-and-mortar retail outlet for Kindles much longer. Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding the Staples office supplies… Read more »
Aggressive B&N Cuts Nook Price By 23 Percent; Adds $149 WiFi Edition
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is shaking up its Nook e-reader line, lowering the price of its 3G edition by 23 percent and adding a lower-end W… Read more »
Borders To Sell Up To 10 E-Readers In Stores; Adds $120 Libre
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Running well behind aggressive rival Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) on the digital front, Borders is now in the midst of a big catch-up push. Th… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Enters iPad E-Book Race Late With New App; Includes Sharing
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad users have had no shortage of e-reader apps to choose from but one big name has been noticeably missing: Barnes & No… Read more »
Kobo E-Reader Waves For Attention; Hits Borders’ Stores In June
Just what we needed for Father’s Day: another e-reader hitting the market. Hoping to grab a little attention while other e-reader makers are… Read more »
New eBook Service Kobo Launches, Raises $16 Million From Borders, Others
Add another entrant to the white-hot eBook market … Kobo, a startup backed by Borders. After all, Borders can’t afford to let Barnes & Nob… Read more »
