{"id":6842,"date":"2010-10-02T11:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6842"},"modified":"2010-10-02T11:31:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T16:31:42","slug":"kobo-and-kindle-yes-but-kobo-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6842","title":{"rendered":"Kobo and Kindle &#8211; Yes, but Kobo first."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting addition to the story about <strong>Research in Motion&#8217;s (RIM) full-color<\/strong><a title=\"BlackBerry PlayBook\" href=\"http:\/\/na.blackberry.com\/eng\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong> BlackBerry PlayBook<\/strong><\/a> tablet due out in <strong>2011<\/strong>. We mentioned <a title=\"PlayBook meets Kindle and Kobo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6787\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> that both <strong>Kindle <\/strong>and <strong>Kobo <\/strong>were ready to provide eBooks for the <strong>iPad <\/strong>competitor. This story at <a title=\"Kobo and Playbook Partners\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2010\/09\/30\/kobo_playbook_partnership\/\" target=\"_self\"><em><strong>the Register<\/strong><\/em><\/a> tells us that in fact <strong>Kobo <\/strong>will come preloaded on the device. While we can imagine the <strong>Kindle App <\/strong>for <strong>PlayBook <\/strong>will be ready launch day, <strong>Kobo&#8217;s<\/strong> preloaded status will give their bookstore the high ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting addition to the story about Research in Motion&#8217;s (RIM) full-color BlackBerry PlayBook tablet due out in 2011. We mentioned here that both Kindle and Kobo were ready to provide eBooks for the iPad competitor. This story at the Register tells us that in fact Kobo will come preloaded on the device. While we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6842\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6842"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6852,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6842\/revisions\/6852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}