(29 Dec 2020) Manually flipping the pages of an e-book could soon be a thing of the past, what with a new feature coming to the fore where eye-tracking technology is used to turn a page. The feature has been introduced by the Millie’s Library, a South Korean e-book service provider that introduced the above…
(15 August 2018) Amazon Kindle e-book sales have jumped 12% last year in China and the company now has a library of over 700,000 titles that are available. Amazon also announced that it has sold several million Kindle e-readers since it first launched in China in 2012 and China has become the world’s biggest regional market…
(1 October 2016) The e-reader industry is starting to mature and a number of companies continue to release new products. Michael Kozlowski takes a look at the best devices that are currently available and some of the reasons why he really like them. The readers include Amazon Kindle Oasis, Kobo Aura One, Tolino Vision 3…
(8 May 2014, Toronto) Kobo, a global leader in eReading, today announced it will provide Sony’s Reader™ and Sony’s Xperia™ tablet and smartphone users in Australia as well as the UK, Germany and Austria with access to its comprehensive digital reading ecosystem, which includes a catalogue of more than 4 million eBooks, top-ranking eReading apps, and…
(Toronto, Canada, 17 October 2013) Kobo, a global leader in eReading, and leading Indian booksellers Crossword, WHSmith and electronics retailer Croma, today announced the arrival of Kobo’s digital reading platform in India. The device line-up, featuring a range of best-in-class E Ink and tablet devices, includes the Kobo Touch™, Kobo Glo, Kobo Arc and Kobo Aura…
(10 September 2013) Kobo is partnering with National Book Store in the Philippines to bring Kobo’s eReading platform to the country. Along with Kobo’s localized online experience and access to its eBookstore of 4 million titles, National Book Store is making Kobo’s eReading devices exclusively available at its 145 locations. The Kobo Touch, Kobo Glo…
eBook consumers are decidedly shifting to multi-function tablets and away from dedicated eReaders, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s closely watched on-going Consumer Attitudes Toward EBook Reading survey. The fourth and final instalment in Volume Three of the Bowker-powered survey shows that tablets have risen by about 25 percent over the past year…