Sentences with phrase «ebook company kobo»

Canadian ebook company Kobo, which was acquired by Japanese retail giant Rakuten in 2011, is replacing its founder and CEO Michael Serbinis with a Japanese executive, the company announced Tuesday.

eBook company Kobo announced its new lineup of Arc tablets and its first kids and digital magazine store with content from major publishers.

Not exact matches

Whether they slowly morph into another company like Kobo for ebook content delivery or if they become an online retailer like Amazon remains to be seen.

The retailer has entered into a deal with Kobo and has stated they are working with the ebook company to deal with the issue.

This phenomenon has been shared for years from companies like Kobo and OverDrive, who've worked to convince publishers that library lending and ebooks are good for their business.

Kobo is an ebook first company and well Google, they have their hands in many other cookie jars.

The vast majority of users purchase their e-readers and ebooks via two companies; Amazon and Kobo.

Major companies such as Barnes and Noble, Sony, Kobo, and Amazon all make solid revenue by selling eBooks to phone owners.

«In our case we're working most the time with a company called Booktango to help us assemble that and make sure we get premium placement within the various ebook stores, be it Amazon or Kobo or the like,» he said.

This was only a few months after the original Kobo e-Reader launched and the company had to bow to customer demands to buy eBooks right on the device.

If you want eBooks, and use the Readers HUB, you do not deal with just Kobo, you deal with two other companies.

Kobo is great and all as a content provider, but a dedicated e-reading application that allowed users to load their own ebooks and audio books directly on the device, bypassing 1st and 2nd party companies trying to sell you things.

Right now the company primarily distributes its catalog of ebooks to Amazon, Apple's iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Google Play.

«As a device - neutral platform, eBooks purchased through Kobo's eReading service can be read on various eReaders, which is a level of flexibility that benefits our authors as they seek to grow their audiences of readers,» went on Mr. Gutch, expounding the virtues the company's decision to embrace open standards such PDF and EPUB.

The company will continue to run its own ebook store, but will also promote Kobo.

In terms of ebooks, Kobo was the first company to allow you to borrow and read directly from the public library, as long as they used Overdrive.

Certainly companies like Amazon, Barnes and Noble's Nook Press, and Kobo's Writing Life have made publication possible for authors, but Smashwords has taken that opportunity even farther by extending the reach of where authors» ebooks end up.

It is unbelievable to me that a major global computer company like Sony has deleted all ebooks purchased by their ebook customers, when they sold that division to Kobo, and that they are unobtainable for download.

For those less familiar with Kobo, the company's bookstore carries more than 2.3 million ebooks.

Open Dissent and one other will be converted in partnership with Tech - net Scientific e-Publishing services and the company plans to release the third through Kobo, the ebook retailer founded by Indigo of Canada.

The company has been figuring out how to launch its business in other countries since early on when it expanded to the U.S. And Kobo has inked deals with the American Booksellers Association, a trade group for independent bookstores, and its equivalent in the UK to have indie bookshops sell its devices and ebooks.

Kobo is the only mainstream company whose sole premise is delivering hardware to tap into its ebook ecosystem.

In a few short years, Kobo went from an unknown company by the name of Short Covers to being one of the largest ebook stores in the world.

The company has signed a longterm agreement with Kobo, to have their eBook app preloaded on any future Sony branded Android device.

Kobo controlled 50 % of the entire market and was the only company selling e-readers and selling a copious amount of ebooks.

• Kobo is a privately - held company that offers over 2.4 million eBooks, newspapers, and magazines — one of the largest eReading catalogues in the world.

Some interesting details from McCoy's interview include the explanation of Amazon's adoption of the ePub file format — as opposed to its standard MOBI format — for Japanese ebooks in light of the Amazon.jp store launch, as well as Kobo «s ePub - only ebook store formed by parent company Rakuten.

WH Smith is not only transitioning its ebook store to be powered by Kobo but the company is also selling the Kobo e-readers in most of its stores.

Kobo provides one of the world's most communal eBook reading experiences with its innovative integration of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter; while Rakuten offers Kobo unparalleled opportunities to extend its reach through some of the world's largest regional e-commerce companies, including Buy.com in the US, Tradoria in Germany, Rakuten Brazil, Rakuten Taiwan, Lekutian in China, TARAD in Thailand, and Rakuten Belanja Online in Indonesia, and of course, Rakuten Ichiba in Japan.»

Kobo claims that it also led another eBook company, Sony, to exit the market, and caused Barnes & Nobles» «NOOK» eBook division to become unprofitable.»

Sometime this year Kobo will be selling audiobooks and ebooks on the Walmart website and both companies will issue a co-branded app.

TORONTO, Feb. 29, 2012 / CNW / - Kobo Inc. today announced that the company will be one of the first eBook retailers to have an app featured in the...

Rakuten also owns Kobo, the Canadian ebook and e-reader company.

Kobo will then be soon launched in Australia at the end of the month.R REDgroup had partnered with Canadian eBook firm Kobo to provide the service and it was likely that the company's upcoming Kobo eReader would also go on sale locally when the stores launched, she said.

Finally we have a fair bit of news on the Motorola Xoom, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and we put a special emphasis on what companies need to do to make ebooks more accessible.

Earlier in the month David Carnoy from CNET posted details of an interview with E Ink, the company that makes the screens for the Kindles, Kobo and Sony ereaders, Nook, and most other ebook readers around the world.

Kobo is an innovative company that as Shortcovers has already, in a matter of months, provided eBooks to customers from over 200 countries who have downloaded its reader application over one million times online and through devices including smartphones, desktops and popular eReaders such as the Sony Reader.

E-reading platform Kobo may be a quiet company where retailing is concerned, given that many US consumers may not have even heard of the company that falls just slightly behind Amazon and Barnes and Noble is ebook and device sales, but the company who has made more international headway than either of the two larger platforms combined has now increased its retail partnerships in France.

The Kobo e-reader and Kobo Wireless have been available at most Walmart locations since May 2010, so the two companies have an existing relationship prior to the eBook deal sealed today.

Well they have for sure left the e-reader and ebook game to Kobo but the company is far from being done.

Kobo recently raised the ire of some authors due to restrictions in its self - publishing platform, Writing Life, due to the appearance of erotica and adult - themed self - published ebooks making their way into online book retailers» children's sections, with the end result being a statement from the company that they will not consider for sale certain inappropriate thematic elements and that, like most of the other retailers including Amazon and Barnes and Noble, they would be deleting titles whose metadata or keywords seemed intentionally misleading.

Aquafadas, a Kobo company, provides solutions for magazine and newspaper publishers, ebooks, publications for marketing and corporate purposes, and even digital comics.

This resulted in Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble and other eBook companies removing the ability to purchase books on IOS rather then pay apple 30 % of every sale.

Kobo saw strong momentum with a 10X increase in new customers from the company's pre-holiday period, and hundreds of thousands of devices were activated each day since Christmas Eve, fuelling the highest eBook download rate in Kobo history — with eBooks being sold to Kobo customers every second of the day.

The Kobo app for iOS does not let you buy books anymore and neither do any of the other large ebook companies.

Amazon eBook Sales Have Overtaken Print in the UK — In the United Kingdom Amazon, Kobo, Sony, and other major companies have used the country as a launch point to enter the rest of Europe.

Kobo has just signed a deal with retail giant Walmart to have its ebooks featured on the company's main Canadian website.

I ran into problems with two books that I wanted (their US publishers didn't allow the codes), but since Kobo is an international eBook company, I found their Euro editions!

The company said earlier this year it is closing down its ebook business in North America, Europe and Australia and that users would be transferred to Kobo, owned by Japanese online shopping giant Rakuten.

Even if Borders ultimately doesn't come out of this, their ebooks and ebook store would essentially continue through Kobo, a completely independent company from Borders, so either way ebooks purchased in the past or future from Borders are safe — you don't have to worry about them disappearing if Borders goes under, which we all hope doesn't happen.