

Its pricing strategy in Australia was similarly aggressive where it was available for A$199, again A$100 less than the Kindle. However, in June 2010, just after the Kobo was released, Amazon dropped the price of the Kindle to US$189. The pricing strategy of the original Kobo, at US$149, was to rival the Amazon Kindle, which was US$110 more expensive. It was manufactured by Netronix Inc., a Taiwan based company with factories in Taiwan and China. It was available in black or white and came preloaded with 100 public domain books.
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It had expandable memory, holding an additional 4 GB via an SD slot and limited wireless connectivity via Bluetooth to select Blackberry wireless devices.

announced its first e-reader on 24 March 2010, at the CTIA show. It has a 10.3-inch E-Ink display at 1404 x 1872 pixels, with a density of 227 ppi and an updated stylus. The Kobo Elipsa 2E was released on 19 April 2023. It has a 6-inch E-Ink display with 1448 x 1072 resolution and 300 ppi, and the exterior is made with 85% recycled plastics. The Clara 2E was released in September 2022. Battery Life: 1200 mAh, weeks of battery life.Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Micro USB.Supported formats: 14 file formats supported natively (EPUB, EPUB3, PDF, MOBI, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RTF, CBZ, CBR).Customizability with 11 different fonts and over 50 font styles with a font weight and sharpness setting.
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The Kobo Sage and Kobo Libra 2 are the first Kobo ereaders to come with Bluetooth support thus, audiobooks can be played from the e-reader with the use of an external Bluetooth speaker. The Libra 2 was released in October 2021. It has a 6-inch E-Ink display at 1024 x 758 pixels, with a density of 212 ppi.

The Kobo Nia was released on 21 July 2020. Some also support other formats, such as ZIM, unofficially.
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Up until an update in January 2022 Kobo readers required connection to the Internet during the initial setup phase and did not work until they were connected to Kobo's servers however, they now support "sideload mode," which allows the reader to be used without registering it to a Kobo account, Kobo e-readers support viewing KEPUB (Kobo's proprietary ebook format based off of the EPUB format), EPUB, Adobe PDF, plain text, HTML, and unprotected Mobipocket (MOBI, PRC) e-books. The latter, however, is user selectable as an alternative. ( May 2021)Īll Kobo e-readers share a unique pagination system giving users the option to count and reference pages separately within each chapter as opposed to the book as a whole. This section needs expansion with: The expansion of the contents of each subsection. WiFi 802.11 ac/b/g/n (dual band), Bluetooth® wireless technology, and USB-C Waterproof, ComfortLight Pro, Dark Mode, Dropbox support, Audiobooks WiFi 802.11 ac/b/g/n, Bluetooth® wireless technology, and USB-C Waterproof, ComfortLight Pro, Dark Mode, AudiobooksĬapacitive touchscreen/buttons/Pen compatible WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth® wireless technology, and USB-C Wi-Fi 802.11 ac/b/g/n, USB-C, Bluetooth (preview) Waterproofed, ComfortLight PRO, Flexible substrate The Arc tablet series, released between 20, was based on LCD technology instead. Like most e-readers, the Kobo uses an electronic ink screen. 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. The company's name is an anagram of "book". The Kobo eReader is an e-reader produced by Toronto-based Kobo Inc (a subsidiary of Rakuten). Kobo Aura, Kobo's former baseline e-reader
