I'd be interested to know if Kobo will be "championing" Canadian books in Canada that are trapped in e-book rights hell.
Louise Penny (
http://www.louisepenny.com/) is a three time winner of the Agatha Christie Award for best mystery novel (the first for any author); she's won the British Daggar, Canadian Arthur Ellis and American Dilys Award; winner of both the Anthony and Barry First Novel Awards; she's a New York Times Bestselling Author; she's currently nominated for the best Mystery / Crime Novel of the Decade; she lived in Toronto for many years (a CBC alumni) and currently is based in Montreal.
Her series based on the goings on of Inspector Armand Gamache has now reached six novels:
Still Life; A Fatal Grace (Dead Cold); The Cruelest Month; A Rule Against Murder (The Murder Stone); The Brutal Telling; Bury Your Dead. I can buy all of these titles in paperback, hardcover and audiobook format from Chapters, from Amazon, from Waterstones, from Barnes and Noble ... and the e-book is available in all those markets ... EXCEPT Canada.
It would be cool to see Kobo take the stand starting here.