re-posted from http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/kobo-planning-ebook-lending-and-self-publishing-service/
We (goodereader.com) talked with the CEO of Kobo Michael Serbinis recently at Book Expo New York and he dropped some bombshells on new plans for his company later on this year. It seems Kobo is preparing both ebook lending and a portal for authors to submit their own ebooks to be listed in the Kobo ebook store.
Kobo has been one of the darlings of the ebook and e-reader industry with 3 readers to their portfolio with the most recent Kobo Touch to be available soon. They also have an international bookstore with over 2.2 million books available in Canada, USA, Germany, Spain, Australia and more.
Kobo has big plans for 2011 with the advent of their new eBook lending program! eBook lending is a way that you can lend books to friends for up to 14 days, but only once. Two other companies right now offer ebook lending programs such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble. These two companies offer lending on select ebooks. Kobo although has not divulged all of their plans yet for the lending program, and said this is something they are working on and will implement by the end of the year.
Kobo also has plans for an independent author portal where authors can have their books listed in epub formats to be sold in the Kobo eBook store. This new program is comparable to rival programs such as Barnes and Noble PUBIT and the Amazon DTP. Kobo will be adding a new section to their book store for the titles that are self-published and will offer a conversion program for TXT, RTF, and DOC files to EPUB. I can foresee Kobo having a revenue sharing policy comparable to the other companies.
Kobo if anything has remained tremendously competitive in the ebook reader, ebook store, and e-reader application development scene. Their current iPad app Reading Life is heralded as the definitive application to read books and has raised the bar. It perfectly blends social media aspects along with statistics on your reading patterns.
In order for Kobo as a company rise to the next level and be on par with the biggest companies in the e-reader and ebook sphere, they have to implement ebook lending and a self-published program. These two facets puts them on even footing with their direct competition and provide separation from their emerging competition in other markets.
We (goodereader.com) talked with the CEO of Kobo Michael Serbinis recently at Book Expo New York and he dropped some bombshells on new plans for his company later on this year. It seems Kobo is preparing both ebook lending and a portal for authors to submit their own ebooks to be listed in the Kobo ebook store.
Kobo has been one of the darlings of the ebook and e-reader industry with 3 readers to their portfolio with the most recent Kobo Touch to be available soon. They also have an international bookstore with over 2.2 million books available in Canada, USA, Germany, Spain, Australia and more.
Kobo has big plans for 2011 with the advent of their new eBook lending program! eBook lending is a way that you can lend books to friends for up to 14 days, but only once. Two other companies right now offer ebook lending programs such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble. These two companies offer lending on select ebooks. Kobo although has not divulged all of their plans yet for the lending program, and said this is something they are working on and will implement by the end of the year.
Kobo also has plans for an independent author portal where authors can have their books listed in epub formats to be sold in the Kobo eBook store. This new program is comparable to rival programs such as Barnes and Noble PUBIT and the Amazon DTP. Kobo will be adding a new section to their book store for the titles that are self-published and will offer a conversion program for TXT, RTF, and DOC files to EPUB. I can foresee Kobo having a revenue sharing policy comparable to the other companies.
Kobo if anything has remained tremendously competitive in the ebook reader, ebook store, and e-reader application development scene. Their current iPad app Reading Life is heralded as the definitive application to read books and has raised the bar. It perfectly blends social media aspects along with statistics on your reading patterns.
In order for Kobo as a company rise to the next level and be on par with the biggest companies in the e-reader and ebook sphere, they have to implement ebook lending and a self-published program. These two facets puts them on even footing with their direct competition and provide separation from their emerging competition in other markets.
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