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Japanese ecommerce specialists Rakuten are purchasing ebook retailer Kobo for $315 million. Rakuten recently purchased UK ecommerce site Play.com and owns Buy.com in the U.S. In the UK Kobo’s ebook readers are sold via WHSmith. The ebook retailer also offers books via apps for the iPad, iPhone and Android powered devices. Kobo offers ebooks both…

Book retailer WHSmith has announced it is migrating its entire ebook operation to Canadian-based Kobo. In an email to customers, the high street and online retailer said while customers can continue to search and browse for eBooks at WHSmith.co.uk “when you have found an eBook you will click through to Kobo’s website to complete your…

iPad and iPhone users who buy books from Kobo will no longer be able to purchase titles from within the app as Kobo becomes the latest retailer to fall into line with Apple’s new sales rules. Earlier this year Apple announced it would no longer approve apps which redirected sales out of the app and…

ebook retailer Kobo has updated its app for Apple’s iPhone and iPad to include a new ‘friends’ feature in its Reading Life social networking platform. The new feature allows app suers to see what titles their friends have read and ask for book recommendations and compare their Reading Life ‘awards’ which are given for reaching…

Canadian based ebook retailer Kobo has announced a new touchscreen version of its ebook reader which is capable of holding up to 1,000 eBooks.

Kobo users on the iPad and iPhone can now share quotes, passages and recommendations with friends on Twitter following the ebook retailer’s latest app update. The update extends the Reading Life features which gives readers ‘awards’ for the number of books they’ve read or reaching benchmarks.