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Kobo News & Updates: Indie App, Black Friday Promo
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Customers can now affiliate with their local bookstores through the new Indie App, developed by Kobo. Using the app, customers who purchase Kobo eBooks through smartphones, computers, and tablets can have them credited to their local participating ABA member store.
The Indie App landing page allows users to input a zip code and then select to affiliate with a local bookstore. (Booksellers who do not find their store after entering their zip code should send an alert to [email protected].)
Kobo program participants will soon be receiving a Kobo App Kit, which includes a poster and shelf-talker that promote the Kobo Reading App to customers. (The materials are packaged in a large white cardboard envelope from Kobo that bears a sticker indicating the contents are time sensitive.)
More Kobo App Kit materials are available in the Kobo section of Designs & Downloads, under the heading “Kobo App Kit.” These include banners, training materials, product images, and digital files for the poster and shelf-talker.
For a complete overview of the Kobo App Kit, program participants should review “ABA Partner App Download Flow” in the Kobo section of Designs & Downloads.
Stores are also directed to the “Constructing Kobo App Links” in Designs & Downloads to update their landing pages to ensure that all customer app downloads are being linked to the store. (Stores that would like ABA staff to double check their links should send an e-mail to [email protected] indicating the page that includes their app links.)
Along with the App Kit, stores that are using the Kobo counter display will also be receiving a “refresh kit.”
The refresh materials to create a new generic display include stickers to cover out-of-date content and new interchangeable takeaway cards that promote the new and existing Kobo devices. A list of materials in the refresh kit is available here. For issues relating to Kobo demo devices or displays, e-mail [email protected].
Web banners and posters to promote the Thanksgiving weekend sale on the 16GB Kobo Arc are now available to members only in the Kobo section of Designs & Downloads. Stores should not post the sales and price information until November 28.)
Kobo Arc Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales must be reported via the Reporting Tool no later than December 20, 2013
To celebrate the release of Janet Evanovich’s Takedown Twenty, St. Martin’s Press is offering e-books number 4 through 16 in the Stephanie Plum series for $2.99 each until Monday, January 6. The promotion also includes five stand-alone Plum novels. The complete list of titles is available here.
An announcement about the availability of the new Kobo devices from Ingram is imminent; ABA members looking for information on the new devices can find more details in the Kobo e-mail archive: