So it is just after midnight December 15, 09 and as expected the switch has been flipped on KoboBooks.com. Shortcovers.com is no more. Indigo CTO Micheal Serbinis explains in a blog post “Kobo is an anagram of the word “book” and we think that it is a name that will appeal to readers around the [...]
So yesterday I speculated that Shortcovers was rebranding as Kobobooks. The timing, among other things, is weird about this. But hey sometimes you have to move when Steve Jobs says you can move. A quick search in the Canadian trademark database (thanks N.) reveals that KOBO is indeed the name they are going with but [...]
This morning brought news of Amazon’s (via A9) acquisition of yet another innovative start-up. They bought SnapTell, the service that allows users to snap a picture of a bookcover and see pricing for that item at online stores (B&N, eBay, Amazon.com) as well as information at Google and Wikipedia. Amazon’s continued land grab of promising [...]
This just came over the wire. Greenpeace is looking for publicity. I am giving it to them. It seems a rather random selection of targets. The press release doesn’t elaborate as to why these retailers were chosen. Four of the retailers have stores at Yonge and Dundas, so I am speculating that mere convenience had [...]