Kobo has soft-launched in the Netherlands, selling ebooks from Bruna, Querido and De Bezige Bij beginning December 17, at about a 10% discount compared to leading Dutch online bookseller Bol.com. They started selling their Kobo Touch ereaders via Dutch electronics retailer Redcoon as of October 1. Kobo’s official launch in Holland is expected by March 1, 2012. Amazon announced that Kindle device sales in the UK more than doubled during the Christmas holiday. As in the US, an unspecified “millions of UK customers have already discovered the benefits of Kindle.” Though the announcement came a little late for the holidays, Smashwords said […]
