The new German Kobo ebookstore is now open for business at www.kobobooks.de, with 2.4 million titles—including 80,000 in German—for sale. That’s about three times as many as what Amazon offers on its German Kindle store, notes paidContent. Kobo has also released German-language apps for iOS and Android, with a PlayBook version “coming soon.”
The Amazon store launched This past April, and just a few weeks before that Kobo announced plans for a European expansion of country-specific stores, starting with Germany. PaidContent notes that the next countries in line to have Kobo stores are France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands.
Here’s the official press release.
