Kobo's new tablets and e-reader are nice, but not groundbreaking. Reading content from your Pocket account on an E-Ink screen? Now that's interesting. How long will it be before B&N, Kindle, and Sony start cuddling up to the competition?
For $400, Kobo’s Arc10 moves too slow and feels too buggy beside competitors like Google’s Nexus 7, which sells for less and feels far faster. Is there any way it can succeed?
Kobo’s Aura makes it easier to view content from the Web and doesn’t come locked to just one bookstore, but bookworms will need to decide if it’s worth the fairly substantial price premium.
Kobo has unveiled a range of new devices, including three tablets designed with readers squarely in mind. The Arc 10HD tablet and two 7-inch models come with features such as Reading Life and Reading Mode to put the reading experience front and center.
Kobo has announced a high-end e-reader named the Aura HD, which features a big, high resolution screen and a fast processor, which it's aiming at book lovers who consider other, cheaper e-readers to offer a mediocre reading experience.
You may have never heard of Kobo, but last year it sold millions of e-readers and it plans for yet another successful year of sales and performance on the horizon.
The upcoming Kobo Touch with Offers offers a reduced $99 price tag on the Kobo Touch e-reader in exchange for ad space on the device's screen when it is not in active use.
E-commerce giant Rakuten has further expanded its global presence with the acquisition of Canadian e-publishing firm Kobo. The move will increase the profile of the Toronto-based company thereby helping to push sales of its recently released Vox tablet, as well as its vast number of e-books.
Barnes & Noble sent out invites to a special event in New York scheduled for Monday. It's widely expected that the bookseller will unveil a new tablet to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire and Kobo's Vox devices.
Kobo, the Wall Street Journal, Google, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble are all stopping in-app content sales...because they don't want to give Apple a 30 percent cut.
The number two bookstore chain in the United States is calling it quits: Borders will be shutting down all remaining stores and liquidating all assets.
Kobo, an eReading service built on an open platform, has announced that the latest version of its application now includes the integration of Instapaper across all its iOS apps.