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News of the Work of Michael Tamblyn

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Readmagine 2025: On Innovation, Skills, Collaboration

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonMay 27, 2025

Madrid’s Readmagine opens with the values that publishing finds in new developments: good training and talent.

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Spain’s Readmagine 2024 on New Inflection Points in Publishing

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonJune 24, 2024

The 2024 Readmagine conference in Madrid opened with keynote comments on what may be a new inflection point for world publishing.

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Spain: Madrid’s 11th Readmagine: ‘In an Age of Anxiety’

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonMay 14, 2024

The 2024 edition of Readmagine in Madrid is set to examine publishing issues like pricing, business models, and market-specific insights.

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Abu Dhabi: Kobo Plans To Begin Supporting Uploads of Arabic

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonMay 23, 2022

The 12-year-old international digital book service’s CEO Michael Tamblyn addressed the Abu Dhabi book fair’s conference.

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London’s 2021 FutureBook Conference: Live and Streaming on November 19

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonNovember 11, 2021

This year’s FutureBook conference event in London will seat 350 delegates in live session at 155 Bishopsgate, while others view a live stream.

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Coronavirus Worklife: Rakuten Kobo’s Michael Tamblyn: Lessons from the Contagion

In News by Porter AndersonJune 8, 2020

Rakuten Kobo discovered that its biggest hurdle was that most of its manufacturing was in China and Taiwan. And e-readers suddenly were selling fast.

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Coronavirus Worklife: Kobo Joins Mondadori in Providing Free Ebooks to Italians in Lockdown

In News by Porter AndersonMarch 11, 2020

Amid Europe’s largest coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, Italian citizens in lockdown are able to read free Mondadori ebooks in a program facilitated by Kobo.

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Michael Tamblyn on Kobo’s 10th Anniversary: ‘A Better Reading Life’

In News by Porter AndersonDecember 13, 2019

This weekend marks Kobo’s first decade. CEO Michael Tamblyn looks at how his far-flung international retail success is a former startup ‘still standing.’

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Canada’s Rakuten Kobo Arrives in America at Walmart: Ebooks and Audiobooks

In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonAugust 22, 2018

Touting 6 million ebooks and a $9.99 audiobook subscription, the new Walmart partnership with Rakuten Kobo gives the Canadian retailer what it hasn’t had in the US market: brand recognition.

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Canada’s Kobo Rolls Into the US With Walmart: ‘A Very Competitive Experience’

In News by Porter AndersonJanuary 26, 2018

Having once left the American ebook market largely to Seattle, Rakuten Kobo now is hitching a ride with Walmart back into Amazonian America, selling ebooks and audiobooks through the big-box leader.

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