🆚 Amazon eBooks vs. Kobo
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Amazon eBooks is much more popular than Kobo.
- 🌎 Amazon eBooks is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Kobo is more popular in Taiwan.
Amazon eBooksType
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Amazon eBooks is the Kindle ebook ecosystem, where users can purchase, download, and read digital books via Amazons Kindle Store.
It uses proprietary formats like AZW, AZW3, and KFX, supports cross-device syncing, and offers a Kindle Unlimited subscription with access to millions of books.
Kobo is a subsidiary of Rakuten that operates a digital bookstore, a subscription service, and a line of E Ink e-reader devices.
It offers a digital library of over 1.5 million ebooks and 150,000 audiobooks, supports open formats like EPUB, provides offline reading and cross-device syncing, and integrates with public libraries for borrowing.
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- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Ebooks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Ebooks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Ebooks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Ebooks category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Ebooks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Audiobooks category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Ebooks category.
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