[Cactus Chef]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Been napping for the last few years?

Kobo is now the hardware end of the Tolino alliance.

See Kobo becomes new technology partner at the tolino alliance or Kobo acquires Tolino e-reading platform or do a search for the many articles about it.

Fair enough, what I wasn't clear on is why every other country just operates on Kobo except Germany. Might have my answer in this paragraph:

For both tolino and Kobo customers, the change of partner does not alter anything. They will still be customers of their tolino bookstore and be able to use the same services as before. The established tolino brand remains one of the leading eReading brands for the German-speaking region. And the customers will benefit from the usual free access to the hotspots, the tolino app and tolino cloud.

I guess the thought was that this would be easier than trying to migrate all of the Tolino stuff into the Kobo ecosystem for just one region?