This approach led to Wired singling out Kobo as the "only global competitor to Amazon ". We were not going to be able to get the pricing that some of our competitors would get to." In the middle of 2014, Kobo stated that it served 18 million readers in over 190 countries with over 17,600 online and physical retail channels. if we weren't international, we were not going to get the scale. According to the EVP of business development, Todd Humphrey, "From day 1, we made it our goal and a priority to be international. Kobo also has a program partnering with independent bookstores to sell their devices. The company has strategic partnerships with Cheung Kong Holdings, W H Smith, Whitcoulls, FNAC, and Livraria Cultura. Kobo sells its devices online and through physical retail channels. By July 2014, 250,000 books written by 30,000 authors have been published through this program these authors originate from 157 countries and have books published in 69 languages. Key features of Kobo Writing Life include "deep analytics", allowing authors to track sales in real time a "learning center" to guide newcomers in digital publishing and allowing an author to sell books globally. On 17 July 2012, Kobo launched a self-publishing platform called Kobo Writing Life.
Both have provided tools for users to migrate purchases and information to Kobo's offering. They include the defunct Borders eBook Store, as well as the Sony Reader Store. Several digital book stores have closed down and transferred their users to Kobo's bookstore. The majority of titles are sold in the open ePub format, albeit with DRM. Content sold on the Kobo Bookstore include eBooks, Audiobooks, newspapers, and magazines. It is currently localized for 16 countries and comprises 5 million titles. In 2017, Kobo acquired Shelfie, an app that organizes personal libraries. In June 2015, Kobo received a Top Developer badge in the Google Play store.
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Kobo offers free reading applications for Windows and OS X computers and Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone smartphones.
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It previously sold the Kobo Vox, a 7-inch Android tablet released in 2011. Kobo also produces the Kobo Arc family of Android tablets, which it introduced in 2012 and refreshed in 2013. Kobo's e-readers use Wi-Fi to sync a user's book collection and bookmarks with Kobo's cloud service, which can also be accessed from Kobo e-reading apps for Windows and OS X computers and Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone smartphones. These e-readers compete with the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook product lines. On the higher end, it includes the Kobo Aura the Kobo Aura HD, which adds a higher-resolution screen, the waterproof Kobo Aura H 2O and the Kobo Forma which adds physical buttons and a choice of orientation.
On the cheaper end, its lineup consists of the base model Kobo Touch, the smaller Kobo Mini, and the Kobo Glo, which has an illuminated screen. Kobo produces several e-readers with e-paper screens. E-readers Main page: Engineering:Kobo eReader
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