Thank you, Internets, thank you. Just what I needed.

(Courtesy of @jkottke. He says it best:

"Dancing skills + sword fighting skills + old lady sitting motionless in a chair skills + huge boom box skills + dog almost gets beheaded skills + it gets magical around 52 seconds ="

Vox gets its first try in the kitchen and passes with flying colours. Totally flour- and butter-proof.

 

The big finish. (and we're still all back on the floor this AM!)

If you were there, thank you so much for coming. It was amazing to have our friends and supporters there for such a fantastic night. We had a lot to celebrate - our new partnership with FNAC for France, our equally new partnership with WH Smith in the UK, happy publishers, a killer team. If you weren't there, I guarantee whatever party you were at paled by comparison. And probably didn't have sweat-drenched dancing. (thanks to Cam and Nina - you should go into business! And stephen, the doorman who never failed.)

My favourite time of year in NYC.

 

At Kobo, we hear a lot of 

"[Amazon/Apple/B&N/Google] is [ten/twenty/a hundred] times bigger than Kobo. How can you possibly [compete/survive/look at yourselves in the mirror]?" And we've always kind of believed that bigger doesn't mean smarter, it just means bigger. Anyway, I stumbled across a quote in WSJ today that summed it up perfectly.

"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it." -- Steve Jobs, Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/11/09/250834/index.htm
via
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/08/24/steve-jobss-best-quotes/

Try it out here: http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata

And here's a quick video to show you how it works.

A pretty seamless move. Wireless up, coffee machines functional, desks assembled. Really, what else do you need?

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Michael Tamblyn
EVP Content, Sales & Merchandising
Kobo
p: 416-977-8737 x3346
m: 416-409-5925