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Walmart and Kobo Are Launching Their Joint eBookstore on 21 August

30 July, 2018 // 14 Comments

Kobo is keeping mum about the official launch of its joint ebookstore with Walmart, but all signs point to the launch happening in the second half of August. Initially announced in January, the new [Read More ...]

Kobo: Keep Your Book Description Shorter Than 4,000 Characters Or It Will Be Excluded From Walmart.com

7 July, 2018 // 2 Comments

I am currently following a discussion over on KBoards about Kobo and Walmart, and one author just dropped a useful nugget of information that authors might find useful. Kobo is telling authors who [Read More ...]

Leaked: Kobo Clara HD Costs $129, Ships Early Next Month

14 May, 2018 // 8 Comments

Kobo's newest ereader isn't scheduled to ship until the end of the month, but Notebook Italia finding a leaked product listing on an Italian retailer's website just rendered the press embargo moot. [Read More ...]

Leaked Youtube Video Reveals Kobo Clara HD has a 6″ Screen With Color-Changing Frontlight

11 May, 2018 // 6 Comments

Kobo's next ereader leaked on Youtube today, and it is exactly what we were expecting. Kobo’s Canadian retail partner, Chapters/Indigo, uploaded a video to YouTube showing the Kobo Clara HD. The [Read More ...]

Kobo Firmware Update v4.8.10956 Adds Fast Page Flip, New Default Font

10 May, 2018 // 5 Comments

Kobo released a new firmware for its ereaders a couple weeks ago that added a faster page turn speed as well as other improvements.. Hold the corner of the screen and you can advance through an ebook [Read More ...]

How to Get Night Mode (White Text & Black Background) on Kobo eReaders

28 April, 2018 // 5 Comments

Kobo gives readers a nearly infinite number of different ways to tweak their reading experience so it's perfect. We can change the margins to either leave a pleasant amount of whitespace or to save [Read More ...]

Kobo Content Sales Up 60% in 4th Quarter 2017 – Mostly Due to Tolino

19 April, 2018 // 11 Comments

It turns out Kobo has a lot in common with the major trade publishers; in both cases, much if not all of their growth comes from acquisitions rather than growing sales. According to Rakuten's [Read More ...]

Kobo Clara HD Clears the FCC

31 March, 2018 // 11 Comments

Kobo's next ereader has shown up on the FCC website, but unfortunately that is just all I can tell you about it right now. According to the paperwork, the Clara HD is going to be made by Netronix, [Read More ...]

Readers Have Borrowed More Than 1 Billion Books Through OverDrive

20 March, 2018 // 3 Comments

Overdrive just announced on their blog that they have loaned a billion ebooks since they first started lending ebooks in 2003. From OverDrive: One billion. It’s a defining number that’s hard to [Read More ...]

Kobo to Retire Kobo Kids Accounts on 3 April

1 March, 2018 // 7 Comments

Back in 2013 Kobo responded to the then-current hand-wringing over adult content in ebookstores by launching a Kids Account option which had limited access to only what Kobo considered [Read More ...]

Walmart Now Kobo’s Retail Partner in the US, Will Sell Kobo eReaders in Store

25 January, 2018 // 17 Comments

from the official press kit for the launch, a woman reading on a Kobo Aura Back during the hot years of the ebook market Walmart sold first Sony, and later Kobo and Kindle ereaders in store, but that [Read More ...]

“The Whistler” by John Grisham was the Most Popular Library eBook Last Year

11 January, 2018 // 2 Comments

A couple weeks back Amazon revealed that the most read Kindle ebook this past holiday season was Dan Brown's Origin, and now Overdrive says it was quite the popular library ebook as well. Overdrive [Read More ...]

Kepubify Can Make Kobo Kepub eBooks Out of (DRM-Free) Epub eBooks

17 December, 2017 // 7 Comments

Like Google and Apple, Kobo uses its own unique form of the Epub ebook file format. Google's file format has no known name, and of course Apple uses iBooks, but Kobo's take is called Kepub. Since [Read More ...]

Kobo is Issuing New Credits From the eBook Antitrust Settlement

23 October, 2017 // 3 Comments

I have heard from a few readers, and now Dear Author has confirmed, that Kobo has joined Amazon and Barnes & Noble in redistributing unused credits from the ebook antitrust settlement. Kobo sent [Read More ...]

eReader Market Forecast for 2018 (January to June)

19 October, 2017 // 15 Comments

With Amazon about to ship a new Kindle and Onyx teasing new models, everyone is wondering whether they should wait for new devices that may or may not be in the pipeline. In fact, I just got asked [Read More ...]

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