Kobo’s sugar daddy has been funding development of new ereaders and expansion into new markets, and last October Rakuten bought Aquafadas with the goal of having Aquafadas add better support for digital comics and Epub3 in the KWL platform and the Kobo ebookstore. Rakuten appears to be willing to continue to shovel money into Kobo in the hopes of gaining a larger market share. Kobo is still a tiny fraction of the global market and is in 4th or 5th place in most markets around the world.īut Kobo’s small share in the ebook market could grow. TBH, I am not sure the extra work is worth the effort. They’re hoping that this will give authors better control over the finer details of their ebooks and that it will result in better looking content after the ebooks have been converted to Kobo’s proprietary version of Epub.
Kobo want to make it easier to create that custom ebook for their ebookstore. The custom titles simply look better than a generic Epub file. Each ebook platform has its own quirks in how it displays ebooks, and that is part of the reason that many authors and publishers like to create a custom Kindle edition, iBooks edition, and (sometimes) a custom Nook edition of a particular ebook title. The idea here (and this is why B&N added this feature to Nook Press) is that the online editor will speed up the fine-tuning step in the ebook creation process. That’s why Kobo has launched a new way for authors to create an ebook from scratch, all within the Kobo Writing Life platform. Kobo looked at the bug-ridden Nook Press (and its online manuscript editor) and thought they could do better. It seems that their self-pub platform, Kobo Writing Life, will now let authors upload the parts of an ebook and create the finished product online. Kobo Writing Life Adds New Online Book EditorĪ press release has just come across my desk from Kobo.
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