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The Kobo eReader is an e-reader produced by Toronto-based Kobo Inc (a subsidiary of Rakuten).The company's name is an anagram of "book". The original version was released in May 2010 and was marketed as a minimalist alternative to the more expensive e-book readers available at the time.
OverDrive Media Console supports a variety of formats, including EPUB and PDF for reading, and MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) for listening. [5] WMA content is only supported on the Windows version of the OverDrive Media Console, [ 6 ] which dramatically reduces the number of titles available on other operating systems.
During the COVID pandemic, Kobo worked with governments, publishers, and retail partners to provide more than 20 million free books through the “Stay Home and Read” programme. The company reported that romance and mystery novels continued to be bestsellers during the pandemic and that there was a rise in books for kids and young adults.
Basic e-readers have glare-free screens with long battery lives, but higher-end models have page-turn buttons and audiobook compatibility. The 7 best e-readers of 2023 Skip to main content
OverDrive, Inc. is a worldwide digital distributor of ebooks, audiobooks, online magazines and streaming video titles. The company provides digital rights management and download fulfillment services for publishers, public libraries , K–12 schools, colleges, universities, corporations, legal industries, and formerly retailers.
Libby Book Awards is a book award contest put on by Libby. The first annual contest was held in 2024 and featured winners for Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult, Audiobook, Debut Author, Diverse Author, Comic Graphic Novel, Memoir & Autobiography, Cookbook, Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Fantasy, Romantasy, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction, and Book Club Pick.
The Kobo Touch also includes integration with the read-it-later service Pocket. Once a user has signed in with their Pocket account, articles saved to Pocket can be read on the Kobo Touch. [14] Four applications are included with the Kobo Touch: a web browser, sudoku, chess - now replaced by Unblock It - and a sketch pad.
Kobo language, a language of the Democratic Republic of Congo; KOBO, a radio station in California, US; Kobo Inc., a Canadian company, a subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten, that sells e-books and markets Kobo eReader hardware and software Kobo eReader, an e-reader; KOBO (whale), a blue whale skeleton