Coronavirus Worklife: Rakuten Kobo's Michael Tamblyn: Lessons from the Contagian - Publishing Perspectives

Today, Panzer stopped in at the Publishing Perspectives site. With a little digging and reading in the posts, our inquisitive kitty boy found one about Kobo and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Will this virus thingy ever go away?

Porter Anderson's post contains extensive quotes from Kobo's Michael Tamblyn's presentation at the Digital Publishing Summit. Turns out since Kobo was purchased by Rakuten a number of Kobo's employees were already working remotely before the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Because of this, the pandemic didn't impact a lot of Kobo's employees. What was impacted, however, was Kobo's ereader production. Their ereaders are produced in China and Taiwan. Both were hit hard by the pandemic. This caused a slowdown in ereader production. The post contains a lot of information about Kobo employees' work-from-home efforts and ereader and ebook sales during the pandemic.

Panzer says, "This little kitty likes Kobo."

Note: This is a humongous post. Bring a gallon of tea and six muffins for your reading selection today.

To read the post tootle over to Rakuten Kobo