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• Kobo Invades Portugal, Expands Fnac Partnership

  413 readers [Press Release] Kobo Brings eReading to Portugal in New Partnership with FNAC FNAC Portugal to offer the award winning Kobo Touch eReader at all FNAC stores, and on www.fnac.pt, from €99.90 Lisbon, September 24th, 2012 – Today Kobo, a global leader in eReading, and leading retailer FNAC announced a partnership that will revolutionize reading in Portugal. FNAC, in partnership

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  Kobo partners with FNAC – the #1 book retailer in France

  1606 readers From the press release: Kobo, a global leader in eReading with 5 million readers in over 100 countries worldwide, has expanded its international footprint by partnering with #1 book retailer in France, FNAC.   FNAC has chosen Kobo to deliver a superior eReading experience to their customers, leveraging the Kobo eReading platform, one

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  Kobo Partners With French Bookseller FNAC

  992 readersOn the heels of news that Amazon has opened a Kindle store in France, Kobo has partnered with French bookseller FNAC to sell its eReaders. Under the terms of the partnership, sometime during Q4 2011, FNAC will sell Kobo eReaders in 81 stores in France and online with Fnac.com. Kobo will be giving in-store demos

• Indigo Announces Agreement for Kobo to be Acquired by Rakuten

  1368 readers TORONTO, Nov. 8, 2011, 2011 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- Indigo Books & Music Inc. ("Indigo"), Canada's largest book, gift and specialty toy retailer, and Rakuten, Inc. (jasdaq:4755) ("Rakuten"), one of the world's leading Internet service companies, announced today that Rakuten has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding

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  Fnac Now Taking Pre-orders for Kobo Touch

  1522 readersActualitte is reporting that the Kobo Touch will go up for pre-order today on Fnac’s website. Fnac and Kobo announced a partnership several weeks back, but at that time there was no mention of eReaders. Now we know that Fnac will be shipping the Kobo Touch on 28 November, and it’s now taking pre-orders. Fnac is

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  Kobo Launches in Portugal Through FNAC Partnership

  808 readersToday Canadian e-book platform Kobo announced a new partnership with FNAC Portugal to bring Kobo’s platform and international selection of digital titles to Portugal, along with local content. The Kobo Touch e-reader will be sold through FNAC Portugal’s stores and website for 99 euros. “The Portuguese language is the common heritage to four percent of

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  Major Shake-up at Indigo Books

  1146 readersIndigo Books & Music, corporate parent of Kobo Books, today announced the appointment of a new President. Veteran retailer and current Indigo Board member Tedford G. Marlow will take the reins of this Canadian company effective April 1st. The cur...

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  Editis: Our Policy is Pluralism

  1658 readersBy Olivia Snaije Pierre Dutilleul and Alain Kouck of Editis Alain Kouck, CEO of Editis, France’s second largest publisher, was sounding relaxed about the rapidly expanding e-book market in France. “Every eight days there’s an announcement,” he said, referring to the arrival of the French Kindle and Tuesday’s news about a partnership agreement between book retailer FNAC

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  FNAC Sold 30 Thousand Kobo Touch This Season

  1368 readersIt looks like Fnac is having better success with their new Kobo partnership than they did with the Fnacbook; early reports indicate that Fnac sold more KT in its first couple months than they sold Fnacbooks in a year. La Tribune  is reporting that Fnac, Kobo’s retail and eBookstore partner in France, did quite well this

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  Kobo looking for a UK partner

  1327 readersFrom The Bookseller: Canadian e-book retailer Kobo has said that it would be keen to partner a UK retailer in an effort to establish a presence in the market. Michael Tamblyn, vice-president of content, sales and merchandising at Kobo [pictured], also called for the simplification of rights deals in order to ease global e-book sales.