Printed from http://www.electronista.com

Kobo strikes independent bookseller deal

updated 08:55 pm EDT, Wed August 29, 2012

Deal replaces Google-indie bookseller deal

Kobo has announced that it will enter an agreement with the American Booksellers Association in which Kobo will sell e-books and its line of e-readers through independent US booksellers. The Kobo deal will replace a similar deal the ABA had reached with Google, which will expire in January 2013. That deal failed to gain any real consumer interest, but Kobo, which announced the deal in a post on the company's blog today, expects that the new deal will give it a much-needed foothold in the American market, which is dominated by Amazon and, to a lesser degree, Barnes & Noble.

The deal will bring Kobo's e-reading experience to nearly 2,000 independent booksellers across the US. Kobo touts the deal as exemplary of its "Read Freely" philosophy, in which consumers should have "the freedom to read an book, anytime, anyplace, and on any device." Kobo's e-reader applications are available on the iPad and iPhone, as well as BlackBerry, Android, and Windows devices. Kobo also produces its own line of e-readers, including the Kobo Touch and Kobo Vox.



By Electronista Staff
Post tools:

TAGS :

toggle

Comments

Login Here

Not a member of the MacNN forums? Register now for free.

toggle

Network Headlines

toggle

Most Popular

Sponsor

Recent Reviews

Life n Soul 8 Driver Bluetooth headphones

When it comes to music on the go, consumers generally have some options to consider when looking for the best experience. While Blueto ...

Tesoro Tizona G2N Elite gaming keyboard

The market for gaming keyboards is getting crowded, starting off with some fairly simple keyboards and diverging into the land of modu ...

GX Gaming DeathTaker mouse

Gaming is a serious endeavor for many people, driving them to look for the best performance in their system and interface devices. Fro ...

Sponsor

toggle

Most Commented

 
toggle

Popular News
http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/29/deal.replaces.google.indie.bookseller.deal/
www.electronista.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2014-35
65108
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:T43CEIIANLZG76CUJY2W4EDNPSWNHMOI
<urn:uuid:f180fb9e-cb91-49ca-b884-5e3aaecc2cbd>
2014-08-20T14:36:15Z
207.58.150.180
sha1:OHRXJ3K7CD4BUCV4NSEWYG7IJ2HW2PGM
<urn:uuid:ac3afef3-d386-4935-aef1-6645bd46e9f9>
http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/29/deal.replaces.google.indie.bookseller.deal/
response
<urn:uuid:e44df84c-170c-440a-9968-ba874d561aca>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-35
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for August 2014
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf