Sony readers move to Kobo in the UK, Germany, Austria, and Australia
Sony is slipping out of the ereading market. Readers in the UK, Germany, Austria, and Australia will find their Sony accounts switching over to the Kobo bookstore on June 16.… Read more »
Kobo prepares to challenge ebook case
In February, the Commissioner of Competition in Canada told Kobo it had forty days to abandon the agency model. Those forty days were supposed to expire on Wednesday… but on… Read more »
Sony’s not going to bother with U.S. e-reader market, gets Kobo to sell books there instead
The Kobo news is here: on March 20, Sony is shutting down its reader store in the U.S. and Canada. The Kobo platform will take its place, and the Kobo… Read more »
Ereaders are for everybody!….with some exceptions
Here’s the thing about ereaders: they are a technology that depends on their exclusive status. They’re really not for everybody, you know? It’s only the young and strong and forward-thinking… Read more »
In for a penny, out for a lot of pounds: Sony v. Amazon price war ends
The last few times I’ve been in London, it’s all everyone in the book biz there was talking about: the war between Sony and Amazon UK. People would bring it… Read more »
THE HOLLYWOOD ECONOMIST: Hollywood, SOPA, and the Pirates of the Internet
A “2.0 edition” of Edward Jay Epstein’s The Hollywood Economist releases on January 24th. Below Epstein discusses why Hollywood is so intent on passing something like SOPA legislation. * * *… 2 / Read more »
The stage of the holiday eReader showdown is set
Kobo has announced a new $99 touchscreen e-reader just days after the news that the company had been sold to Japan’s leading online retailer, Rakuten, for $315 million. The inexpensive… Read more »