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  Kobo Launches German Language eReader

  1724 readersKobo released a German language version of the Kobo eReader Touch eReader. The eReader will be available at German retailers for €149 beginning on Oct 1, 2011. The company announced the device at IFA in Berlin this week. The device will be supported by Kobo’s existing German-language eBookstores. Since the store launched in July,

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  Kobo’s German ebookstore opens with bigger selection than Amazon

  Array readersThe new German Kobo ebookstore is now open for business at www.kobobooks.de, with 2.4 million titles—including 80,000 in German—for sale. That’s about three times as many as what Amazon offers on its German Kindle store, notes paidContent. Kobo has also released German-language apps for iOS and Android, with a PlayBook version “coming soon.” The Amazon store

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  Kobo launches German language ereader

  1452 readers From the press release: Kobo, a global leader in eReading with over 4.2 million users worldwide, offers one of the largest digital German-language book stores, localized apps for both the iOS and the Android platform, and the new Kobo eReader Touch Edition is now available in German.  Since its launch in July,

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  Kobo Vox to Launch in Germany This Summer

  272 readersIt may have taken a while, but it looks like the Kobo Vox is finally going to be available in Kobo’s German eBookstore. Thorsten Schroer, head of Kobo’s European operations, was interviewed recently by Teltarif, a German blog. According to Thorsten, the Vox will be shipping in Germany this summer. Retail price has not been set,

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  Kobo Vox to Launch in Germany This Summer

  496 readersIt may have taken a while, but it looks like the Kobo Vox is finally going to be available in Kobo’s German eBookstore. Thorsten Schroer, head of Kobo’s European operations, was interviewed recently by Teltarif, a German blog. According to Thorsten, the Vox will be shipping in Germany this summer. Retail price has not been set,

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  Libre eBookstore Doubles in Size

  6070 readersThe German media retailer Libre.de has just added 220 thousand eBooks to its eBookstore. Customers can now search for and buy from a selection of 450,000 from German and international publishers including CUP, Pearson, Elsevier, and McGraw-Hill. Libre also carries a number of eReader models, including the Acer Lumiread, Sony Readers, Pocketbook eReaders, and others. It

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  Sprechen Sie Kobo?

  1651 readersThe Kindle’s reception in Germany — the world’s second biggest book market — has been lukewarm at best. Can Kobo do better? By Siobhan O’Leary BERLIN: When Amazon’s German Kindle store launched in April of this year, the response from German readers was underwhelming. Though the store featured a selection of 650,000 e-books, including approximately 25,000 German-language

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  Redcoon About to Ship the Kobo Touch in Germany

  1265 readers It happened a few weeks later than Kobo wanted, but the Kobo Touch is now shipping in Germany. Kobo launched its German eBookstore in July, and it promised to release the Kobo Touch in the German market in early September. That later got bumped back to the first of October, and that new release date

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  Kobo to Open eBookstores in Germany, Spain in May

  2196 readersKobo is kicking off its European expansion next month. Today it confirmed that its first eBookstores would be opening in Germany and Spain, with local eBookstores for France, Italy and the Netherlands following shortly after. And these truly will be ...

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  Kobo announces major European retail deal

  3067 readers From the press release: Kobo, a global leader in eReading with over 4.7 million users worldwide, has announced that European online retailer redcoon (www.redcoon.de) will sell the company’s Kobo eReader Touch Edition beginning Oct. 1. Priced at 149 €, the innovative Kobo eReader Touch Edition comes with a rich feature set,