Kobo for Android gets an update that brings improved tablet support, social sharing and more

Source: Gadgetell

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Kobo eBooks for Android Gets Updated to Version 4.0

Source: Softpedia

The Android version of Kobo eBook has been a little bit behind the iOS version when it comes to functionality and performance. However, with the latest update, Kobo eBooks is now close to offering Android users the same k ...
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What should we do with all these books?

Source: National Post

With the current success of Kindle and Kobo, and the rise of the e-book, academics are taking a new look at the printed book, in much the same way the advent of television prompted new thinking about radio and movies. On on ...
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Kobo for Android gets better tablet support

Source: Android Community

If you’re reading this and you’re an avid e-book reader, odds are overwhelming that you use either the Kindle or Nook apps to do so on your Android device. But also-ran Kobo is making a case for itself with the fourth version o ...
Full article at: Android Community  More like this  1 day ago, 8:43pm CDT

How much cleavage is too much cleavage for work?

Source: Globe and Mail

The question How much cleavage is too much cleavage for work? Is there a hard and fast rule? The answer In the most sartorially conservative offices – think corporate law or investment banking – there are few women, so being tak ...
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Obama Sues Publishers, Who Respond With A Fundraiser

Source: National Journal

That best-selling author, Barack Obama, is scheduled to appear at a campaign fundraiser in New York on June 18, hosted by members of the publishing industry. That would be the same President Obama whose administration filed anti-tr ...
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If e-books are so big, why are they marketed so badly?

Source: Globe and Mail

Kate Carraway From Saturday's Globe and Mail Published Friday, May. 25, 2012 4:00PM EDT Like everything else, it used to be easier. “We’d be guaranteed placement upfront in stores for our print books if we paid a certain amount,” Kim McArthur, o ...
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1 Piece, 2 Ways: Torn by Ronny Kobo Dress

Source: ShopBop ShopTalk

The unofficial start of summer is so close you can almost taste the happy hour drinks. But before you head out to celebrate the long weekend, check out how two Shopbop stylists injected their personal aesthetic into an incredibly versatile Torn b ...
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Kobo releases classic novels as digital comics

Source: Quill & Quire

Kobo users can now read ebooks like Alice in Wonderland, The Last of the Mohicans, and War of the Worlds as illustrated comics, through a content distribution deal between Kobo and the digital publisher Traject ...
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