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Monday 13th February

Kobo E-book Store Makes Amazon Look Good

Posted at 8:09AM Wednesday 24 Feb 2010

There's nothing much about Kobo to distinguish it from the more mainstream stores, such as Waterstone's and WH Smith. There are a few recommended reading lists – a good way to help people 'browse' an online bookshop, which is otherwise very difficult – but this is nowhere near enough. As I suggested 18 months ago when I wrote about the Waterstone's e-book store, why not be more creative with categories and help people find books they didn't know that they wanted?

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