One of the biggest (e-) bookshop in the Netherlands named BOL.com had a big problem,they lately only sold Sony E-Readers, but Sony announced to totally stop with production and selling of e-readers.
The Kobo bookshop wasn't common known in The Netherlands,they are there,but they don't advertised at all.
Now, Kobo and BOL.com announced a joint venture, BOL now has the total range of e-readers from Kobo added to their port-folio.
They combine both shops,making more then 2 million ebooks available.
There comes a combined Kobo - BOL app for android in the next months.
The only problem is that the kepub format doesn't work without the conversion in Calibre, so they will change into epub, that is compatible with both Sony and Kobo.
Maybe that means that the internal epub reader of Kobo will be upgraded and that the support will be shifted from Kepub to epub in the future.
There is now a market for thousands and more Kobo readers and accesoires available !
This is a big step for Kobo, Bol.com is the biggest player of selling ebooks in the Netherlands,and Belgium to, so Kobo allso gain access to the Belgium market !
For Dutch reading persons, the announcement of BOL.com
http://weblog.bol.com/article/bol-co...tionale-ebooks