Michael Tamblyn
@mtamblyn.bsky.social
Kobo CEO with zero chill. Chaotic good, anti-fascist, bi-coastal Canadian bookseller ereader-purveyor - unsupervised & unofficial
https://www.michaeltamblyn.com
https://www.michaeltamblyn.com
Can you give me a little more detail. When is it happening?
January 27, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Can you give me a little more detail. When is it happening?
That's a bit weird. Let me look into it. Which country's store are you looking at, if you don't mind my asking?
January 27, 2026 at 6:06 PM
That's a bit weird. Let me look into it. Which country's store are you looking at, if you don't mind my asking?
4. this is a great problem to have
5. still frustrating to everyone who is waiting. just know we are working hard to get them to you!
6. thank you everyone who is loving their remote and sharing your cozy reading scenarios with us. more blankets! less page-turning!
5. still frustrating to everyone who is waiting. just know we are working hard to get them to you!
6. thank you everyone who is loving their remote and sharing your cozy reading scenarios with us. more blankets! less page-turning!
January 27, 2026 at 5:18 PM
4. this is a great problem to have
5. still frustrating to everyone who is waiting. just know we are working hard to get them to you!
6. thank you everyone who is loving their remote and sharing your cozy reading scenarios with us. more blankets! less page-turning!
5. still frustrating to everyone who is waiting. just know we are working hard to get them to you!
6. thank you everyone who is loving their remote and sharing your cozy reading scenarios with us. more blankets! less page-turning!
There's a trapdoor under my desk chair that my marketing team can trigger if I talk about anything we might be doing next. Not sure what's down there. Sharks maybe. Or magma. 🦈🌋 But I can say we love libraries and think that people should use them. And we love ebooks and people should use those too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:36 PM
There's a trapdoor under my desk chair that my marketing team can trigger if I talk about anything we might be doing next. Not sure what's down there. Sharks maybe. Or magma. 🦈🌋 But I can say we love libraries and think that people should use them. And we love ebooks and people should use those too.
I have sworn to my marketing team that I never speak of the future, only the past and the amazing, limitless now. There's a trapdoor under my desk chair that they can trigger if I talk about anything that we might be doing next. Not sure what's down there. Sharks maybe. Or magma. 🦈🌋
January 26, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I have sworn to my marketing team that I never speak of the future, only the past and the amazing, limitless now. There's a trapdoor under my desk chair that they can trigger if I talk about anything that we might be doing next. Not sure what's down there. Sharks maybe. Or magma. 🦈🌋
Hudson’s Bay Company represent 🇨🇦😀
January 26, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Hudson’s Bay Company represent 🇨🇦😀
That would be more of an instapaper thing than a kobo thing. but I agree - that would be awesome.
January 26, 2026 at 1:38 AM
That would be more of an instapaper thing than a kobo thing. but I agree - that would be awesome.
We are deep in it with the OverDrive folks right now. Let me know what isn't working so I can make sure it's on the list.
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 PM
We are deep in it with the OverDrive folks right now. Let me know what isn't working so I can make sure it's on the list.
More gay pope books please.
January 22, 2026 at 5:12 PM
More gay pope books please.
It isn't our invention. Publishers require us to sell books this way. But we have tried to follow those rules while making it as easy as possible for you.
And it is much better than having a different store with a different log-in and separate purchases for each country. Hope it helps!
And it is much better than having a different store with a different log-in and separate purchases for each country. Hope it helps!
January 21, 2026 at 7:02 PM
It isn't our invention. Publishers require us to sell books this way. But we have tried to follow those rules while making it as easy as possible for you.
And it is much better than having a different store with a different log-in and separate purchases for each country. Hope it helps!
And it is much better than having a different store with a different log-in and separate purchases for each country. Hope it helps!
"Every book in any language that every publisher from any country has told us they have the rights to sell in France." Including any books in English, German, Dutch, Italian, etc. that can be sold there (which is a lot of them). 3/3
January 21, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Every book in any language that every publisher from any country has told us they have the rights to sell in France." Including any books in English, German, Dutch, Italian, etc. that can be sold there (which is a lot of them). 3/3
2. What you want to buy next -> Based on which country your account is currently registered when you are buying (by your billing address/credit card) because some publishers only have rights to sell a book in one territory or one language. So the Kobo "French store" is really... 2/3
January 21, 2026 at 7:02 PM
2. What you want to buy next -> Based on which country your account is currently registered when you are buying (by your billing address/credit card) because some publishers only have rights to sell a book in one territory or one language. So the Kobo "French store" is really... 2/3
We can split this into two parts:
1. What you've already bought -> Stays with you no matter where you go, what card you have. You bought it. It stays with you. No worries. 1/2
1. What you've already bought -> Stays with you no matter where you go, what card you have. You bought it. It stays with you. No worries. 1/2
January 21, 2026 at 7:02 PM
We can split this into two parts:
1. What you've already bought -> Stays with you no matter where you go, what card you have. You bought it. It stays with you. No worries. 1/2
1. What you've already bought -> Stays with you no matter where you go, what card you have. You bought it. It stays with you. No worries. 1/2
The books you bought stay in the account. If you keep your French account with your French credit card and billing address, you will still be buying books available from the French store. If you change to a German credit card and billing address, you will switch to the German store.
January 21, 2026 at 5:33 PM
The books you bought stay in the account. If you keep your French account with your French credit card and billing address, you will still be buying books available from the French store. If you change to a German credit card and billing address, you will switch to the German store.
It's all about where your home account is based. Your devices are tied to that account, not to where you bought the device. If you have a French account (i.e. a French CC and billing address), you can buy any books that we have the rights to sell in France, no matter which country they come from.
January 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM
It's all about where your home account is based. Your devices are tied to that account, not to where you bought the device. If you have a French account (i.e. a French CC and billing address), you can buy any books that we have the rights to sell in France, no matter which country they come from.
Your account is linked to the country where your account is based (i.e. where your credit card is issued), so you can travel and still have connection to your "home" store. Hope this helps!
January 20, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Your account is linked to the country where your account is based (i.e. where your credit card is issued), so you can travel and still have connection to your "home" store. Hope this helps!
Kobo also has the ability to download your books so you can take them somewhere else if you want to. Don't like us? Take your books somewhere else. Fear for the future? Bury them underground. Be free. *And*
January 20, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Kobo also has the ability to download your books so you can take them somewhere else if you want to. Don't like us? Take your books somewhere else. Fear for the future? Bury them underground. Be free. *And*
For Kobo, one account works everywhere. The books you can buy are tied to the books' and publishers' territorial rights (i.e. one publisher may have the rights for France, another for the UK) but that doesn't change your ability to read everything that you have bought wherever you are. *And*...
January 20, 2026 at 1:56 PM
For Kobo, one account works everywhere. The books you can buy are tied to the books' and publishers' territorial rights (i.e. one publisher may have the rights for France, another for the UK) but that doesn't change your ability to read everything that you have bought wherever you are. *And*...
If it's trained on what I already put out on the internet, it has almost a limitless reserve of hyperbole available 😂
January 19, 2026 at 10:08 PM
If it's trained on what I already put out on the internet, it has almost a limitless reserve of hyperbole available 😂
Performative? Maybe. Appealing? Definitely 👍
January 19, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Performative? Maybe. Appealing? Definitely 👍