Kobo eReader Touch Edition goes on sale inside the US and Canada

Jun 18th 2011
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Kobo eReader Touch Edition goes on sale inside the US and Canada

These days, there are two very similar-looking e-readers with black-and-white Pearl E Ink touchscreens available to buy, and now, the smaller and cheaper of the pair is up for grabs. The Kobo eReader Touch Edition went on sale today within the US and Canada for $129.99 (or $139.99 Canadian Dollars) at Best Buy, Borders, Walmart, and the Canadian bookseller Indigo. If you’ll recall, the 6-inch Kobo is thinner, lighter, and more compact than the Nook Touch, although its screen is similar size. It also undercuts it by $10 but, it lacks a memory card slot, and there is only 1GB of internal memory reserved for book storage. Could these trade-offs be well worth the trimmer design? We’ll leave that to you and your wallet (and the man who may or would possibly not receive this as a final-minute Father’s Day gift).

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Stylish, New Kobo eReader Touch Edition comes in Canada and U.S. for Father’s Day and Graduation

TORONTO, June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Kobo, a worldwide leader in eReading with 3.6 million users in additional than 100 countries worldwide, today announced that the hot Kobo eReader Touch Edition comes in stores and online at leading retailers including Indigo (www.indigo.ca), Best Buy (www.bestbuy.ca), Walmart (www.walmart.ca) and Borders (www.borders.com) with a MSRP of $129.99 USD and $139.99 CDN. In stores now for Father’s Day and graduation gifting, the Kobo Touch Edition is the ideal gift for dads, grads and people seeking out summer reading fun. Kobo also offers a Father’s Day Gift Guide with other great gifting ideas at www.kobo.com/giftguide.

Beautiful New Design

The Kobo eReader Touch Edition offers a stunning new design that offers the last word in reading comfort. Small and light, it fits easily in a handbag or jacket pocket for simple travel anywhere. The brand new Kobo eReader Touch Edition is available in choice of stylish colors; black, lilac, blue and silver – there’s a color to fit everyone. A single, sleek home button enables a clean design, freed from buttons for a pure reading experience – books wouldn’t have keyboards neither should an eReader.

Amazing New Touch Experience

Now with Infrared Touch Technology, eReading is simple, with the recent touchscreen users can simply tap or swipe to show the page, similar to reading a true book. Kobo’s eReader Touch Edition offers a revolutionary new flicker-free touch screen experience, featuring the most recent E Ink technology that’s similar to reading print on paper – glare-free and simple to read in bright sunlight. With a longer one-month battery life* and 2GB of onboard storage for 1,000 books** (expandable to 30,000 by adding a SD card), a user can carry access their entire library anytime, anyplace.

Kobo eReader Touch Edition features include:

Beautiful, new contemporary design

The most recent Pearl 6″ E Ink screen

Slimmer, lighter, and smaller – for simple travel

A single home button that eliminates clutter so that you can consider reading

Flicker-free page turns – enhanced technology enables flicker-free page turns for an uninterrupted reading experience

Easy-to-use and the final in comfort – read for hours without strain

High performance engine for ultra-fast page turning, low power consumption

Long battery life that delivers a month of reading on a single charge

Real Touch™ experience – use zForce™ infrared touch technology for tap/swipe Page turns, long press highlights and search for, zoom and rotate

Intuitive browsing experience – navigate quickly through entire chapters or all of your library

Customizable fonts – two font styles and 12 font sizes

Build your shortlist – quickly create shortcut to favorite books or current reads

Easily highlight passages within a book

Read PDFs – Download, access and browse personal and professional documents. Zoom in and magnify images, drag your finger to explore the page. Double tap to fast zoom 200%

Access greater than 2.3 million eBook titles wirelessly or through USB connection

Browse, buy and download eBooks in minutes with a number of quick taps

Read almost any format – supports essentially the mostsome of the most content of any eReader

Start reading quickly with 15 free hand-picked previews of the freshest new books

Get free, two-week trials of the most well liked newspapers and magazines

Supported file formats include: Books: EPUB, PDF and MOBI; Documents: PDF;

Images: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIFF; Text: TXT, HTML and RTF; Comic Books: CBZ and CBR

Kobo offers 1 million FREE titles

Borrow and browse eBooks to your local public library

Read across devices and pick up from the last page read with Kobo’s synched bookmark technology

Earn Awards Only for Reading – with Reading Life

Besides, the recent Kobo Touch Edition also includes Reading Life, Kobo’s social experience that lets users earn awards – and shortly rewards – only for reading. Reading Life also allows users to find their very own reading stats, tracking pages read, minutes per reading session and an summary of completed books of their library. With Reading Life, readers can sync Android-enabled phones, iPhones, iPads or iPod Touches to experience Reading Life across devices.

The 1st International eReader

The Kobo eReader Touch could be the first eReader to be available in multiple languages and could offer an entirely local experience, including content, recommendations and the Kobo store. Currently available in English, with French, German, Spanish, and Italian coming soon.

For additional information visit www.kobo.com/touch. Full Kobo eReader Touch Edition technical specifications can be found at www.kobo.com/touch_tech.

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