September 30, 2010 – BlackBerry DEVCON 2010, San Francisco, CA – Kobo, a global eReading service, today announced plans for its application to be preloaded on the BlackBerry® PlaybookTM tablet, giving users easy access to the Koko experience including Kobo’s store of more than 2.2 million books.

Earlier this week, Kobo also announced plans for an industry-first social eReading application that will leverage the new BBMTM (BlackBerry® Messenger) Social Platform.

“We are thrilled to be extending our extensive relationship with RIM into the tablet space,” said Michael Serbinis, CEO of Kobo. “Readers will love the elegant design, crisp display and portable size and weight of the BlackBerry PlayBook, which is perfectly suited for long reading sessions. I am also excited by the possibilities of the BlackBerry Tablet OS, which will allow us to bring today’s bestsellers and classics, as well as other rich content, to BlackBerry PlayBook users.”

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To view a video of what Kobo is planning for the BBM Social Platform click here.

Mike Lazaridis unveiled the new professional-grade BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and BlackBerry Tablet OS during his keynote address at BlackBerry DEVCON 2010.

A product page, including a sign-up section (to be notified of product news/updates) is available at www.blackberry.com/playbook.

A developer page about the BlackBerry Tablet OS is available at: www.blackberry.com/developers/tabletos.