Kobo has started running a sale on the Kobo Glo HD for Mother’s Day. It’s $20 off the regular price, taking it from $129 to $109. The timing is a bit odd, but then again Kobo always seems to do things differently. Unless their shipping has improved significantly I doubt they’d even get it delivered […]
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Not Much Happening with Kobo Lately, Still No OverDrive Integration
Things have been unusually quiet out of Kobo over the past several months. It seems like there’s rarely anything new to report lately; it’s getting harder and harder to come up with new Kobo-related article ideas. They haven’t released a firmware update for their ereaders since early December. They used to issue updates a lot […]
Is the Quality of eBook Readers Declining?
A reader sent in an email over the weekend commenting about how they were at a retail store and noticed some ereaders on display, and they thought the build quality of current devices is vastly inferior to what was available a few years ago. In some ways I have to agree with that sentiment. The […]
Kobo Glo HD on Sale for $109 Again
Kobo has been running sales on their ereaders a bit more frequently lately. The Kobo Glo HD is on sale once again just like it was last month for Valentine’s day. They’ve taken $20 off the regular price, taking it from $129 to $109. The sale runs from March 11th through March 20th, 2016. Amazon […]
Kobo Glo HD on Sale for $109 This Week
The Kobo Glo HD is on sale this week through Valentine’s day, February 14th. It’s marked down by $20 at Kobo.com and Chapters.Indigo, taking the price from $129 down to $109. If ordering from the US, it’s usually cheaper to get Kobo ereaders from Indigo because they charge in Canadian dollars instead of USD. Even […]
New Open Box Kobo Auras Going for $68
I happened to come across a listing yesterday with a seller offering some Kobo Auras on eBay for $67.95. The item condition is listed as “new open box”, so they were most likely demo units or leftover stock. Either way they are the version with the magenta-colored back. Kobo dropped the price of the Aura […]
Kobo Adds Book Stats to Website, With Estimated Reading Time
Kobo has started rolling out a new book stats and keywords section to the product pages of ebooks on the Kobo website. The stats don’t appear for all books but a good share of them now display stats. Book statistics include the number of pages, the total number of words, and there’s a reading time […]
Kobo Offers Price Match Guarantee for eBooks, Plus an Extra 10% Credit
Kobo recently introduced a price-matching program for ebook purchases that includes a 10% bonus credit. It works a bit differently than Amazon’s price-matching system where ebook prices get discounted directly to reflect prices and sales by other merchants. The way it works with Kobo is you have to buy the ebook then submit a request […]