Most Walmart stores have modest book sections, but now the company plans to expand that with digital books. Walmart announced that it’s teamed up with Japan’s Rakuten to sell e-books, audiobooks, and ...

Rakuten Kobo, a leading e-book platform, continues its global expansion with the launch of the Kobo Plus subscription service in Taiwan. This move marks a significant step in tapping into Asia’s ...

Canada-based e-book retailer Rakuten Kobo has a long history of partnering with retailers, including, since 2012, ABA stores. But Kobo and Walmart’s recently announced partnership takes the strategy ...

Ebook subscription services are not particularly new — Amazon launched its Kindle Unlimited service in 2014 while Scribd has been mainly known as an ebook subscription service since 2013. Now that ...

Kobo has announced they have signed an exclusive partnership with the Australian bookseller Booktopia. Booktopia and Kobo have released co-branded e-reading apps for Android and iOS and existing ...

E-book retailer Kobo is teaming with Global Eagle Entertainment and Bauer Communications to provide Southwest Airlines passengers complimentary in-flight access to e-books. The new inflight e-book ...

Aside from the color E Ink display, the Clara Colour resembles Amazon's standard Kindle ($109.99). Both have 6-inch displays ...

The Kobo Libra Colour makes for a nice ’n’ calming-on-the-eyes read, far more so than an OLED or LCD tablet. And its front ...

Later this year, you'll be able to buy ebooks and audiobooks straight from Walmart's website. The big box retailer has teamed up with Japanese e-commerce titan Rakuten to launch a business that can ...

Some closure in the ongoing story of retail giant Tesco offloading its digital content effort blinkbox. Assets from blinkbox Books — specifically customer accounts and existing e-book libraries — are ...

Kobo, the e-reading service owned by Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten, has notched up one more key brand among those that turning to the company to build out their e-books business in a collective bid ...

After months of rumors, Canadian ebook reader manufacturer Kobo has released its newest device, the Kobo Clara HD. The reader is the first budget model to be released by the company in nearly three ...