The Kobo eBooks app for Android has now received an update.
The Kobo ebook apps are free and now available for your iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and Palm Pre devices.
For some reason the latest Amazon Kindle and
Kobo eBook apps, on the other hand, only offer single column views — which look kind of funny when you're holding the tablet in landscape mode because there are either huge margins on the left and right sides of pages (Kindle), or very long lines of text (Kobo).
Not exact matches
The free
Kobo Reading
App gives you access to
Kobo's eBookstore with more than four million of the best
eBooks and leading magazines.
A $ 5 credit towards a customer's purchase of their first
eBook, and they can download the free
Kobo reading
app on a device they already own
Kobo eBook Store
App: Users can download their favorite titles from the comfort of their own home or choose from one of the 25 preloaded
eBooks.
Here's the latest on the new Indie
App, which allows customers to purchase
Kobo eBooks through smartphones, computers, and tablets and have them credited to a local participating ABA member bookstore.
Kobo has designed a way to provide stores with dedicated tracking links for downloads of the
Kobo Reading
App, so customers who read
eBooks on devices other than eReaders can purchase books through smartphones, computers, and tablets and have them credited to the store.
Additionally,
Kobo customers can now earn points for every
eBook and magazine purchase made online or with
Kobo's
app.
Here,
Kobo offers booksellers a series of ideas for initiating conversations with their customers about
eBook reading and the free
Kobo Reading
App.
Kobo has just posted this video (see below) of its near - complete
ebook reading
app for Apple's iPad.
Also, just like the Kindle or Nook
apps, the
Kobo app is tied to the
Kobo ebook store and won't respond to any other
ebooks downloaded from any other source.
Once you've found the
eBook you want, click buy and, after the payment has been processed, the
eBook will be downloaded to your library where it can be accessed from your
Kobo Aura HD and any of our free
Kobo eReading
apps!
I'll be adding the
ebook to other distribution platforms such as
Kobo and Smashwords shortly, but if you'd like to read it now and don't have an ereader, simply download the free Kindle
app to the electronic device of your choice (phone, tablet, PC, etc).
The
Kobo desktop
app comes in handy for setting up your new
Kobo Aura HD, shopping the
Kobo eBookstore, reading on your computer, and managing your growing
eBook library.
While I'm very excited about the opportunity to use iBooks Author as a single tool to create fixed - format
ebooks for the three major retailers that accept them (Apple,
Kobo, and Amazon), I'm less sanguine about using the
app to create reflowable
ebooks — unless I'm creating a separate version for use on B&N, Smashwords, and the rest.
We offer a variety of services including:
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Today's Bone Walker major news item: if you're a reader of
ebooks on
Kobo devices and / or
apps, OR if you're Android - inclined and like to get your digital media from Google Play, then the book is now available for preorder on platforms FOR YOU!
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With iPad and the launch of all the Android tablet / readers —
Kobo's Vox, Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet, Sony's Tablet S, and yes, Amazon's Kindle Fire (which may one day at least run an
app that will read ePUB)-- each of the major
eBook retailers has a device that should have no trouble supporting ePUB3.
Some of them are only applied when the
ebook is loaded through the vendor's service, not when opened directly by an
app (I'm looking at you
Kobo).
If you want to see what all of the fuss is about and you have a
Kobo Tablet or their official
app, Reading Eggs is offering a bundle of 4 free educational
eBooks.
I was very surprised to see that the
Kobo apps (desktop, tablet, phone) are not syncing side loaded
ebooks with their ereaders like Amazon does.
Finally, if you are downloading the
Kobo App for the iPad for the first time, it does come with a number of free
ebooks including Alice in Wonderland, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Dracula, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and Grimm's Fairy Tales.
You won't find Comixology,
Kobo, Nook, Moon + Reader or thousands of awesome e-reading,
eBook, manga or comic book
apps.
That is to say if you have non-DRM
ebooks in ePub format, you can use the
Kobo App to read the books.
Recently they updated their Android
Kobo App which allows side loading of
ebooks into its Android platform.
The other e-reader will have the
Kobo app bundled on it and customers will be able to purchase
eBooks that way.
This week,
Kobo announced that it would offer 40 of Dr. Seuss» most well - known and admired titles for children, adding that content to the already dynamic
ebook offerings for kids through
Kobo devices and the
Kobo app.
Which
ebook formats do the «
Kobo Reading
Apps» support?
Dispute the nominal growth potential of the
eBook industry in the UK, WHSmith and
Kobo are both bullish about the success of e-readers and multi-function tablet reading
apps for the foreseeable future.
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Currently, popular
ebook reading
apps such as
Kobo, B&N or Amazon can be downloaded but they won't work with the e-ink panel due to lack of adequate software support.
Kobo unveiled an update to its Google Android
App that allows Japanese customers to purchase
ebooks directly from the store.
Amazon, Sony, Barnes and Noble,
Kobo and all other major booksellers disabled the ability to buy
eBooks within their
apps because they did not want to give Apple a percentage of every single sale.
Flipkart, newshunt and rockstand are some of the local
ebook vendors but they behave more like scribd, you can only read the
ebooks through the
app, no freedom to download your
ebook anywhere, one of the main reason I went with
Kobo and not Amazon.
While popular
ebook reading
apps such as Kindle or
Kobo can be downloaded on the device, the same won't work with the e-ink display.
The new
Kobo Windows 8
app will allow you to buy
eBooks directly through the
app.
The
Kobo app also enables users to shop for
eBooks through the integrated
Kobo eBook Store and download content to their desktop to easily build and manage their library.
The
Kobo Windows Phone
app is quite solid, it allows users to tap into an ecosystem of over 4 million
eBooks, kids books, comics and graphic novels.
Walmart partnered with
Kobo to sell
ebooks and audiobooks on its website and will also release a co-branded
app later this year so people can read and listen.
Instantly access our bookstore directly from the
Kobo Desktop
App, and choose from over 5 million of the world's best
eBooks, comics, and kids» titles.
Rakuten
Kobo has introduced
Kobo Super Points, a new loyalty program that allows
Kobo customers to instantly earn points for every
eBook and magazine purchase they make online or with
Kobo's free reading
app.
These are then sent through more custom conversion tools which then turn them into high quality EPUB
ebooks that not only look great but work perfectly on any current EPUB eReader, this includes the Apple iPad and iPhone, Android eReader
apps such as Bluefire,
Kobo Reader, Sony Reader, B&N Nook and BeBook.
Additionally, Walmart will start selling
ebooks and audiobooks from Walmart.com and through co-branded
apps with
Kobo for Android, iOS, and desktop computers.
(1)
Ebook edition: available for sale on multiple devices: Kindle,
Kobo, Apple devices, all cellphones through
apps.
-LSB-...] to other
ebook reading
apps, the
Kobo desktop
app is rubbish.
The
ebook readers never managed to reach the mark set by Kindle, but
Kobo is definitely trying to make up for it by releasing its very own android ereader
app.
Additionally, there will be new co-branded
Kobo and Walmart e-reader
apps for purchasing content online (both
ebooks and audiobooks), with Walmart also offering digital book cards in its stores.