🆚 Kobo vs. Project Gutenberg
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Kobo is twice as popular as Project Gutenberg.
- 🌎 Kobo is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
- 🌍 Project Gutenberg is more popular in Germany, Japan, and Poland.
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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.
Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest digital library created to digitize and archive public-domain cultural works.
It hosts over 75,000 titles, primarily older works with expired US copyright, and provides content in plain text, EPUB, and Kindle formats.
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- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Audiobooks category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Ebooks category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Ebooks category.
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