As further evidence of the coming push to expand options for newspapers and magazines in the growing ereading market, today Kobo follows Barnes & Noble’s planned newsstand with their own offering, live as of today. Their site offers about 30 newspapers and magazines to start, and Kobo executive Michael Tamblyn says “this is just the beginning of an aggressive expansion into newspapers and magazines.” All of the offerings work via their iPad and iPhone apps as well as on the Kobo reader. The Apple apps include images in full-color and the iPad versions have a three-column format “that evokes the […]
