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eBooks December 2, 2011

Kobo Launches New “Book Club” With Kobo Touch Purchase

Kobo may be small, but they’re scrappy, and clearly not afraid of the Author’s Guild. They don’t have the infrastructure to combat Amazon’s free Prime ebooks, but they are offering a modified program, sort of like the Kobo “Book of the Month” club. You get your choice of 3 books in January, and it sounds [...]

PSA: Borders eBookstore Moving to Kobo

(image via Flickr) If you’re one of the five people who purchased eBooks through Borders, I strongly recommend you log into your account and follow their instructions to port your library to Kobo. Teleread is reporting that Borders is no longer operating their own eBookstore, and any attempts at logging in or purchasing will lead [...]

GD Quickie: Kobo eReader Gets Featured on the Office!

Tonight on The Office our friends at Kobo snuck in a great bit of product placement! I won’t spoil the whole scene, but it’s very amusing and manages to add in a pitch about how many books the Kobo Reader can hold! We’re working on getting a screenshot, but until then head over to the [...]

State of the eBook: 2010′s Legacy and 2011′s Future

(image courtesy earnmydegree) It has been far too long since the last “State of the eBook” column, but life has been busy lately. However, my New Year’s resolution is to get back on track, and it seemed like a good way to start would be with a retrospective on 2010 and a look to what [...]

Kobo Racks Up a Record eBook Christmas!

We’re getting a better idea of how big this Christmas was for ebooks, since Kobo has now weighed in with their own declarations of success this season. They had a 50x increase from last year (when they were still called “Shortcovers” and saw some serious increases in registered users. Granted, some of this is due [...]

The Kobo WiFi eReader Review

Earlier this fall we had the opportunity to review the original Kobo Reader, a simple ebook reader sold through Kobo and Borders. They recently updated the original design to include WiFi connectivity, and the good folks at Kobo sent a unit over for review! In many ways the WiFi Reader is just like it’s unconnected [...]