One of in every four books that
sells a Kobo was a self - published title.
Michael
sold Kobo to Japanese Internet giant Rakuten for $ 315M in 2012.
By
selling Kobo Indigo abdicated its dominant position in the Canadian market, a publishing market worth 10 % of the U.S. market, give or take (it's still strong, but Amazon continues to grow at its expense).
Most of these indie stores are
all selling Kobo e-Readers and eBooks, as part of an agreement with the UK Booksellers Association.
Hundreds of booksellers, lifestyle stores, and consumer electronics retailers successfully
sell Kobo devices worldwide.
Since
you sold Kobo, sales of e-readers have stagnated, while book sales are going up.
Over 400 indie bookstores in the USA are currently participating with the American Booksellers Association to
sell the Kobo Glo and Mini e-readers.
They will be
selling the Kobo Vox, Kobo Touch, and various... [Read more...]
Any word on whether indigo will be
selling Kobo from.these outlets as well?
Shop e-Readers is now
selling the Kobo Touch at a rock bottom rate of $ 89.99, which is $ 10 less than what you would pay at Chapters / Indigo.
The company is a current partner of the ABA and will be
selling Kobo Readers in the very near future.
The reason was that the store made only $ 5 or so IIRC, on
selling a Kobo e-reader.
They still
sell the Kobo Aura and Aura HD, but their latest offerings are 3 tablets, all released last year.
Bol.com does NOT
sell Kobo tablets at the moment.
Other booksellers were soured by the Google experience and decided not to
sell Kobo e-readers.
Several years ago I went to a local indie bookstore which, according to the Kobo website at the time,
sold Kobo readers.
What they SHOULD do is to start
selling Kobo devices in America.
Kobo is now designing and manufacturing future Tolino e-readers and vowed they will no longer
sell Kobo branded devices in Germany.
Starting October 17th over 750 WH Smith stores in the UK and Ireland will begin
selling the Kobo Touch and Kobo WIFI e-readers.
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.
Michael Tamblyn of Kobo was speaking to the assembled booksellers and took that question, stating that the e-attribution is already set but that booksellers under this program could also
sell Kobo devices that were not part of this new program, yet still receive a percentage of the sale.
BOL is their key partner and they are the largest digital bookseller in the region and been
selling Kobo branded e-readers since 2014 and have been heavily marketing Kobo Plus.
Chapters is
selling the Kobo Vox for $ 169 if you have a Plum Membership card which comes down to a $ 30 savings.
The Borders agreement was doomed from almost the very beginning because the company did not exclusively
sell Kobo devices; instead they sold a wide array of low quality devices.
The Fix: So, if you plan on
selling your Kobo Vox, giving it away, or have decided to return it, make to sure to go in and manually delete the internal SD card contents before doing a factory reset.
I guess that big cheque for
selling Kobo went into previous years results?
Walmart will obviously initiate some sort of advertising campaign because they will be the only retail chain that will
sell Kobo products in the US.
Kobo's affiliate scheme offers booksellers the chance to
sell Kobo devices, and receive an affiliate's cut of any e-books that Kobo owner buys from then on, even if he buys them from someone else's Kobo e-book store.
Sell Kobo devices and accessories online and in - store.
This morning I followed a link over to Best Buy's website and I happened to notice that they are now
selling the Kobo Aura and Kobo Aura HD, and they aren't marketplace items either — they are being sold directly from Best Buy.com.
How Retail Partners Participate:
Sell Kobo eBooks through your website.
ABA members will be able to
sell Kobo ereaders in their stores and offer Kobo ebooks online; they will get a percentage of the ebook sales.
They are sold from Kobo.com and retailers that
sell Kobo's ereaders.
Instead of going with Amazon or Apple, they formed a strategic alliance with a Canadian firm, Indigo, to
sell the Kobo e-reader, a less compelling alternative.
The book retailer also announced today that it will start
selling the Kobo e-Reader tomorrow for $ 129.99, which is $ 20 less than its previous price.
The Canadian - based company will
sell the Kobo Touch in four colours — black, silver, blue and lilac — for $ 99.90 (# 80) in Portugal, offering Portugese readers a catalogue of over 3 million digital books to choose from, of which it says over one million are free.
Borders said it will start
selling the Kobo e-reader and other e-reading devices, in special areas of its store beginning in August.
In November it extended its partnership with French retailer Fnac to
sell Kobo products in their Spanish stores as well.
Walmart will also start
selling Kobo's ebooks and audiobooks.
Independent booksellers will also be able to sell the new devices, with Kobo's affiliation scheme with retailers beginning also in autumn and giving indies in the UK the ability to
sell Kobo e-books through a light integration on their websites.
Indigo, the majority shareholder in Kobo, announced today that it has agreed to
sell Kobo Inc. to Rakuten, Japan's biggest online shopping mall operator, for US$ 315 million.
Already, Kobo has partnered with Livraria Cultura, a major Brazilian bookseller, in a deal that sees Livraria
selling Kobo's e-readers.
Kobo used to
sell the Kobo Touch and Kobo Vox from their website, but inexplicably removed the buy option last fall right before the busy -LSB-...]
It is also assumed that Walmart will begin
selling the Kobo e-reader device in their 4,600 locations.
Next month Kobo will begin
selling the Kobo eReader Touch for $ 129.99.
Not exact matches
After all, a device with a colour screen — rather than the monochrome e-ink readers
Kobo has been
selling so far — opens up a wider market.
Mike Serbinis has made a name for himself as a successful serial entrepreneur, building up and
selling companies like
Kobo.
In less than two years, Reisman's Indigo Books & Music turned an initial $ 31.6 million investment to start e-reader and e-book retailer
Kobo into $ 165 million when it
sold the startup to Japanese e-commerce giant Rakutan for $ 315 million late last year.
He then built
Kobo into one of the biggest e-book operations in the world before
selling it to Japan's Rakuten in 2011 for $ 315 million.
League founder Mike Serbinis at the fall 2013 keynote for
Kobo, the e-reader company he
sold to Rakuten.