Sentences with phrase «rakuten kobo»

«Kobo has been very successful in working with market - leading book retailers around the world to provide a very competitive experience in the e-book space,» Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn told TechCrunch.

Rakuten Kobo Acquires Shelfie Technology — Kobo continues to plug on, with a decent amount of side - loading from other sources.

The Walmart deal with Rakuten Kobo also includes the launch of a new online grocery delivery service in Japan.

At $ 280 from Rakuten Kobo, it costs as much as Amazon's 32 GB Kindle Oasis with «Special Offers» (ads at the bottom of the screen) and $ 50 more than Kobo's original Aura One.

Canada - based Rakuten Kobo says that demand for its new 7.8» E Ink Aura One e-reader is very strong in Canada.

Rakuten Kobo's latest e-reader, the Kobo Aura One Limited Edition, looks identical to the year - old Kobo Aura One.

Rakuten Kobo today announces Kobo Aura ONE Limited Edition, building upon the original Aura ONE by adding 32 GB of memory — which means four times more storage space for large ebook files.

Congratulations to Rebecca Springer, who took home the $ 2,500 cash prize courtesy of Rakuten Kobo, subscriptions to Adobe Creative Cloud and FlightDeck, and eternal nerd glory.

Owned by Tokyo - based Rakuten and headquartered in Toronto, Rakuten Kobo Inc. is one of the world's most innovative eReading services offering more than 5 million eBooks and audiobooks to millions of customers in 190 countries.

«As part of this alliance, Walmart will become Rakuten Kobo's exclusive mass retail partner for the Kobo brand in the US, offering Kobo's nearly 6 million titles from thousands of publishers and hundreds of thousands of authors to Walmart.com customers.

Today I found out that the Kobo Touch sold in Japan restricts users from using the North American bookstore and limits them to the Rakuten Kobo bookstore, which has an extremely limited offering of books at the moment, whether Japanese or English.

Reached for a comment, Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn tells Publishing Perspectives that the new arrangement developed by Kobo and Tolino is «excellent news for all concerned.

As Cader points out, this week's commentary on OverDrive from Rakuten talks of «rapidly improving» financial performance, and — like Tamblyn — the tone is upbeat for this year's anticipated «return to the black» for the company's ebook businesses overall, «including Rakuten Kobo and OverDrive Holdings.»

«With this step, we'll bring the global experience of Rakuten Kobo into the Tolino alliance in cooperation with national booksellers.

Rakuten Kobo will use Shelfie's tech to identify reader preferences for recommendations and to offer ebook editions of print books owned by users.

Michael Tamblyn is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Rakuten Kobo.

Rakuten Kobo will take over the German Tolino e-book platform from Deutsche Telekom at the end of this month, pending approval from the German competition... Read more

The Rakuten Kobo Inc. assists the german tolino booksellers (including Weltbild, Thalia, Hugendubel and eBook.de) with its technological know - how, the latest technical standards and a wide range of innovative solutions.

Rakuten Kobo have launched before the Kindle, will secure the best tie - ups with physical bookstore chains and the publishers will be going out of their way to support this local favorite.

Not surprisingly, Rakuten Kobo has almost 25 % of the Canadian market, with 14.4 % going to Apple iBooks.

As announced in Tokyo yesterday, Rakuten Kobo and Walmart are entering a strategic alliance, making Walmart the exclusive mass retail partner of the Kobo brand in the US.

Working with Rakuten Kobo enables us to quickly and efficiently launch a full e-book and audiobook catalog on Walmart.com to provide our customers with additional choices alongside our assortment of physical books.»

Rakuten Kobo Inc. reserves the right to change or cancel the offer at any time without notice.

Taking over from Deutsche Telekom as the Tolino alliance's e-reading tech partner, Canada's Rakuten Kobo enlarges its European footprint.

For Tolino booksellers and their customers it will be business - as - usual with all services remaining in place, Michael Tamblyn, c.e.o of Rakuten Kobo, said.

Every device in Amazon's current e-reader lineup has one, as do most of the ones from companies such as Rakuten Kobo, Icarus, and InkBook.

Rakuten Kobo will take over the German Tolino e-book platform from Deutsche Telekom at the end of this month, pending approval from the German competition...

Rakuten Kobo will take over the German Tolino e-book platform from Deutsche Telekom at the end of this month, pending approval from the German competition authorities.

Amazon's Kindle may be coming soon to Japan, but Rakuten Kobo and Kodansha make it clear at the Tokyo Book Fair that the Yanks will face stiff competition.

E Ink Holdings Inc (元太科技), which supplies e-paper displays for Rakuten Kobo Inc's e-reader series, yesterday reported a 35 percent sequential decline in net profit for last quarter, mainly due to a reduction in royalty fees.

After a major specs leak and a photo teaser tweeted by CEO Michael Tamblyn himself, Rakuten Kobo has announced the Kobo Aura One, a giant «book - size» premium e-reader priced at $ 250 with new features including a waterproof IPX8 rating and auto blue light reduction for evening use.

«We know our best customers move fluidly between formats, reading digitally and in print, and we welcome this opportunity to bring their entire reading life together,» said Michael Tamblyn, the CEO of Rakuten Kobo.

Rakuten Kobo and Shelfie's acquisition deal includes technology assets, IP, and the infrastructure on which the ecosystem runs.

E-book giant Rakuten Kobo has announced the acquisition of Shelfie, a Vancouver - based startup that allowed people to take pictures of shelves of books, and find out which ones are available as free or discounted ebooks or audiobooks.

Shelfie's R&D team, which specializes in the application of big data and machine learning for discovering books, will also be hired by Rakuten Kobo.

hi i was checking ebay to buy kobo aura h2o, and i have seen something very odd... there were ones that costed just about 120 $ and there were ones that costed 190 $ -200 $... i was very confused, until i knew that 120 $ ones have this written in the discription: Rakuten Kobo e-book store, only PDF books that are sold in the Rakuten Kobo e-book store will be supported so i wanted to know if it is possible to sideload and read Pdfs using koreader.

Under the hood, Amazon told us only that the Oasis features 1 GHz CPU and 4 GB of storage, while Rakuten Kobo provided slightly more information, stating that the Aura one has a Solo Lite iMX6 1 GHz processor from NXP with 512 MB of RAM and 8 GB of storage.

«The Kobo Aura ONE has clearly tapped into a pent - up demand for advanced features no other device on the market offers,» said Michael Tamblyn, CEO of Rakuten Kobo.

Thanks for a very comprehensive explainer about Rakuten Kobo, including their corporate strategy.

They will be able to cherish the books they currently have for years to come as well as add new ones with personalised recommendations and expert selections to suit each and every booklover,» said Michael Tamblyn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rakuten Kobo, in a statement.

Kristin Brodeur, winner of So You Think You Can Code 2017, with judges Joshua Tallent and Monique Mongeon, alongside a representative from Rakuten Kobo.

Katy Mastrocola, a Production Associate at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has been awarded the grand prize for ebookcraft 2018's So You Think You Can Code contest, taking home $ 2,500 from Rakuten Kobo and subscriptions to Adobe Creative Cloud and Firebrand Technologies.

Tokyo, January 5, 2015 - Rakuten Kobo Inc., a subsidiary of Rakuten, Inc., announced that from today it would expand the lineup of titles available on the Rakuten Kobo e-Book Store with the popular manga magazines published by Kodansha Ltd., a major publisher in Japan.

Rakuten Kobo is planning to further expand the content, including manga, available on its platform.

«Together with our partners from the German book trade, we intend to continue to enhance the tolino ecosystem for its many dedicated customers,» said Michael Tamblyn, CEO of Rakuten Kobo.

«This acquisition allows us to bring Rakuten Kobo's experience with collaborating with book retailers around the world to the tolino alliance.

E Ink is a long - time e-paper display supplier for e-readers sold by Amazon.com Inc and Rakuten Kobo Inc..

He has a great job — he's the new CEO of Rakuten Kobo Inc. — but the easy days of e-book sales seem to be over, and industry estimates suggest 2015 was a flat year for e-book purchases in North America.

Until now, the Rakuten Kobo e-Book Store had handled some of Kodansha's manga magazines, but with Kodansha's decision to expand the number of publications it releases in e-Book format, the number of titles available on the Rakuten Kobo e-Book Store will increase.

In order to celebrate the expansion of the number of Kodansha's manga magazines available on the Rakuten Kobo e-Book Store, Kobo will hold a special campaign for residents of Japan from today until January 30, 2015, in which users who purchase certain Kodansha manga magazines on the Kobo store can receive 10 times the number of Rakuten Super Points for their purchase.