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 [...]
The team over at Shortcovers are riding a wave of great publicity. As the hockey-stick moment for ebooks arrives, Shortcovers is getting mentions alongside the Kindle and the iPhone. They are also getting some love from industry insiders. There were some shout outs at the TOC conference last week in NYC. And a post dedicated [...]
A couple interesting things in today’s press release for Indigo Books Q3 Report…
As expected revenue was up (hooray!) by 2.3%, but Reisman is quoted as saying, “Our profit was dampened by the steep and unexpected decline in the Canadian dollar during the quarter which impacted the cost of imported goods and a number of our [...]
Walt Mossberg looked at Scrollmotion and Shortcovers in his column today. He shared some new information about Shortcovers.
Books will be between $10-20 USD. If you want to buy by-the-chapter it will be 99 cents each. I assume they will use some kind of calculus to balance the parts versus the whole while remaining competitive with [...]