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• Shortcovers Rebrands as Kobo & Teams Up with Borders

  
  BerryReview.com — Authority: 626
  It looks like the Shortcovers name was short lived. I found out that they have rebranded as Kobo and according to Kyle @BBCool they have teamed up with Borders. They already have a BlackBerry app which lets you download eBooks on your BlackBerry. They are also planning on offering 1.8 million free books with an ...
  5 days ago

• Kobo Books (Formerly Shortcovers) eReader Now Available For BlackBerry [Application]

  
  BlackBerry Rocks! — Authority: 511
  Kobo Books has released a free eReader BlackBerry application for the Curve 8300 series and 8900, Bold, Storm and Tour series. Formerly known as Shortcovers, their eReading apps have been downloaded over one million times in over 200 countries. Kobo has relationships with thousands of publishers and is actively ...
  5 days ago

• Kobo eBook Reader available for free at the PocketBerry App Store

  
  PocketBerry — Authority: 548
  Earlier yesterday, we introduced to you Kobo , which is the updated version of Shortcovers.  For those who don’t know, Shortcovers was an excellent ebook reader which gave you access to millions of online books, both premium and free.  We wanted to give you all the heads up that Kobo has now been added to the ...
  6 days ago

• Midweek Miscellany

  
  The Casual Optimist — Authority: 121
  Eye, Eye! — The Creative Review looks at the vibrant work of printing studio/small press Nobrow . It’s an Anagram! — Indigo’s e-book initiative Shortcovers has become ‘Kobo’. Much fuss has been made about the name (and the slightly iffy redesign), but what’s more interesting is that Kobo is being ...
  6 days ago

• Borders taking on Kindle & Nook with Kobo

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 155
  Borders has announced it’s entering the ebook marketplace with its new partner, Kobo (formerly known as ShortCovers), with plans for digital books in the open-source ePub format, and a selection of its own ereader devices. Yes, that’s “devices,” plural. Kobo , which is already available as a ...
  6 days ago

• Borders US Launches Ebooks With Shortcovers Partnership

  
  POD, Self Publishing and Independent Publishing — Authority: 425
  While Borders UK stores will pull the shutters down on all of its stores next week, Borders in the US has invested in Shortcovers and that has resulted in the re-branding of the successful e-retailer. Shortcovers will now be curiously known as Kobo and they will power the new Borders ebook stores. Here is part of the ...
  1 week ago

• Kobo Gets $16 Million for E-book Service; Teams with Borders

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 548
  Toronto - Canadian bookseller Indigo Books & Music announced on Tuesday that it hasspun-off its Shortcovers digital reading initiative into a new venture, Kobo,which in turn said it has raised $16 million in funding. read more
  1 week ago

• Shortcovers for Blackberry updates and changes its name to Kobo

  
  PocketBerry — Authority: 548
  We got the email this morning from Shortcovers and were pleased to see a whole new application come out of the hat.  If you try going to ShortCovers.com, you’ll see that it’ll redirect you to KoboBooks.com.  So what’s new in the app?  You’ll now have a better interface and overall look to the app for ...
  1 week ago

• Shortcovers rechristened Kobo, with no branded e-reader in sight

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 498
  It’s official: Shortcovers, the Indigo-owned e-book service launched less than a year ago, has a new name. At midnight last night, the company was rechristened Kobo (an anagram of “book”), and along with a redesigned website and mobile app, introduced several new features. However, no mention was made of a ...
  1 week ago

• Canadian ebook store Shortcovers becomes Kobo

  
  eReport — Authority: 106
  Canadian ebook store Shortcovers has changed its name to Kobo, an anagram for “book”, and revamped its online store www.kobobooks.com as part of its plan to expand its international coverage. [Update: 16 Dec, 11:47am. REDGroup which has Australian and New Zealand book chains A&R, Whitcoulls and Borders ANZ, ...
  1 week ago

• “Kindle App” hits iPhone

  
  mobilesyrup.com — Authority: 665
  Now that us Canadians actually have Amazon’s e-book reader “Kindle” available to us… a free Phone app have been officially launched also. Basically if you have an iPhone you can save yourself some money and install the “Kindle App”.Available in 60 countries, Canada being one of them, the Kindle App can:* ...
  1 week ago

• Shortcovers teams up with Internet Archive

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Received an email from them saying that they will now make the 1.8 million titles from the Internet Archive available free of charge. The Archive includes works in 180 languages, acquired from 200 library partners and scanning locations in 5 countries. More than 1,000 new books are added every day. According to the ...
  1 week ago

• Shortcovers to carry Perseus-distributed e-books: 100 U.S. indie presses to benefit

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  “The Indigo-owned e-book retailer Shortcovers has partnered with the U.S.-based Perseus Book Group—a distributor of more than 100 American independent presses – to sell e-book titles. The deal connects Shortcovers with PBG’s Constellation digital services program, launched in September 2008, which handles ...
  2 weeks ago

• E-Reading the Tea Leaves

  
  The Casual Optimist — Authority: 121
  While The Wall Street Journal recently suggested that e-readers are more eight-track than iPod and Forrester Research predicted that B&N will steal market share from Amazon and Sony in 2010, Joe Wikert, General Manager & Publisher at O’Reilly Media , made the even bolder prediction that Amazon ...
  2 weeks ago

• NY Times on smartphone e-reading apps

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Found via tweet from @Hadrien : The New York Times has a brief article profiling several of the e-book reading choices available for the iPhone and other smartphones: Kindle, Aldiko (for Android), Barnes & Noble eReader, Shortcovers, and Stanza. While they do only mention the Barnes & Noble version of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Freebies in e-stores: Shortcovers prez likes ‘em—within reason

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Don’t give away your whole book for free. That’s what Ficbot warned new authors yesterday, and I agree. Generous samples are cool. Same for onscreen viewing of the complete book, as opposed to actual freebies of the full files. But should a writer offer a free download of the whole bleepin’ book if it ...
  3 weeks ago

• My e-book Thanksgiving list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 656
  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...
  3 weeks ago

• Major News from Smashwords and Kindle

  
  Becoming A Writer - Seriously — Authority: 111
  Smashwords has just announced that authors who publish through its sytem may choose to have their books distributed through the Kindle Store .  This is big news indeed for writers seeking publication and distribution.  Details of the arrangements with Amazon and its authors are spelled out in its announcement ...
  4 weeks ago

• My Experience with Reading Digital Books on the New Droid Phone by Gwen Hayes

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 140
  Author Gwen Hayes emailed me that she had recently purchased a Droid phone from Verizon .  A Droid phone is a smartphone that runs on the Google Android system.  I asked her what she thought of the device for reading and she agreed to write a post for Dear Author. (Beware people who email me lest you, too, be ...
  4 weeks ago

• Saturday Midday Links Roundup: Writers Organizations Mad at Harlequin

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 140
  TBIResearch believes that Amazon is losing quite a bit of money on the ebook market as it tries to drive down prices of books. Publishers are trying hard to maintain a higher price, but researchers and retailers believe that consumers will not pay a high price for ebooks. The good news according to the research ...
  4 weeks ago

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