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The Kobo Glo is Now Discontinued

February 28, 2015 By Michael Kozlowski 8 Comments

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The Kobo Glo was originally launched in September 2012 and did quite well in North America and Europe. In recent years this e-reader was a bridge to overseas markets and sold all over the world. The Glo is now officially discontinued.

The main Kobo website now brings users to a 404 page when they try and purchase this low cost e-reader.  This is the same thing that has occurred in the past when the Canadian based company discontinued the Kobo Mini.

Kobo currently has two openings in their product portfolio and they are actively developing the next generation of e-readers.  Their codenames are Alyssum and Pika.

The Alyssum e-reader will be six inches and have a resolution of 1072 x 1448 and 300 PPI. This is very similar to the e-reader that Amazon released late last year, the Kindle Voyage. It is very likely that Kobo wants to heavily compete against Amazon with very similar hardware.  Pika on the other hand will supplant the Mini, which was discontinued in 2014.  It will be five inches and have a resolution of 800 x 600.


Michael Kozlowski (7741 Posts)

Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about electronic readers and technology for the last four years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the Huffington Post, CNET and more. Michael frequently travels to international events such as IFA, Computex, CES, Book Expo and a myriad of others. If you have any questions about any of his articles, please send Michael Kozlowski an email to michael@goodereader.com

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  • Daniel Matos

    What a pity! The best low cost e-reader and now this…

  • Michael Kozlowski

    Well, this e-reader had its day. It was actually the first e-reader with a front-light that Kobo ever released, but it was getting long in the tooth.

  • sam perrulli

    Great article, tanks. Check this link for more information http://bit.ly/1Dow1SQ , it might interest you.

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