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Kobo’s new audiobooks subscription service has arrived in the free Kobo app, with the option to purchase à la carte too, so you can enjoy the wonder of being told a story.

Toronto company Kobo has released the latest iteration of its e-reader, the Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2, in Australia and New Zealand.

Amazon's 73,198-word terms and conditions for using the Kindle has many clauses that would be unfair under Australian Consumer Law, the consumer rights body CHOICE claims, adding that it would take nine hours to go through these T&Cs.

Billing itself as ‘the first and only global eBookstore to offer a rewards program for booklovers’, Kobo Super Points aims to make reading more rewarding.

Rakuten Kobo will provide JB Hi-Fi’s 13,000 eBooks NOW customers with the Kobo eBookstore platform instead, featuring over four million eBook titles.

The Kobo Aura H2O waterproof eReader is now available in Australia and New Zealand.

2014’s not over yet, but Kobo has gone all-in with its inaugural 2014 Book Report and eReading trends from its ebooks, ebook readers and bookstore with 4.2 million titles. 

The world’s first ‘premium waterproof e-ink e-book reader’ has been announced today in late November but won’t make a splash in the Aussie marketplace until the 5 February 2015.

The Sony Reader Store is closing next month, and customers will be moved across to Kobo.

Kobo has announced some big additions to its hardware lineup in Australia, with a bunch of new e-readers and tablets on the way.

Kobo's range of ereaders is now available to Australian customers via the company's web site.

Kobo has appointed Colin Bettam as its chief marketing officer.

There's more to e-books than Kindle: Kobo now has an app for BlackBerry 10.

Aussie retailer JB Hi-Fi has expanded its digital content offering to now include eBooks, taking on online giant Amazon at its own game.

New firmware for the Kobo Arc tablet delivers Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

Kobo has announced three new e-readers including the Kobo Arc, a 7in Android tablet that will sell for less than $250.

Salesforce.com is set to acquire web-based social performance management software provider Rypple and plans to relaunch its product as Successforce.

Telstra is planning to exploit the market's fascination with tablet computers. They're now adding the Samsung GALAXY Tab - a 7-inch mobile tablet running Android 2.2 to their T-Touch Tab in an expanded tablet range.

Kogan continues to diversify its range of low-cost consumer electronics. The latest addition is a $189 ebook reader.

Best-selling Australian author Garth Nix hopes that the advent of more legitimate e-books may stem the flood of pirated books on the internet.