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PocketBook International

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Revenue
  
$ 151 million (2010)

Headquarters
  
Lugano

Number of employees
  
230 (July 2013)

Website
  
www.pocketbook-int.com

Founded
  
2007

Type of business
  
Privately held company

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Industry
  
Consumer electronics Online distribution

Products
  
E-book readers, multimedia readers and Android-based tablet computers

Profiles

PocketBook is a multinational company which produces e-book readers based on E Ink technology (an electronic paper technology), as well as multimedia readers and Android-based tablet computers, under the PocketBook brand.

Contents

The company was founded in 2007 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Its headquarters is located at Lugano in Switzerland. PocketBook is the fourth largest global manufacturer of e-readers.

Development and manufacture

The devices are assembled at the Foxconn, Wisky, Yitoa and other factories.

Sales geography

The company's products are sold in 30 countries worldwide – in Central, Eastern, and Western Europe, in Russia and Baltic and Commonwealth of Independent States countries, as well as in Australia, Israel, New Zealand, and others. As of December 2013, PocketBook claimed it had sold over two million e-reader and tablet devices.

PocketBook’s projects

  • BookLand – an electronic platform from PocketBook with a goal to sell fiction, educational, and reference literature, as well as periodical publications in electronic format. BookLand offers more than 1,500,000 titles of electronic content in 17 languages.
  • KidRead – a project which helps to manage the time a child spends on a mobile device. This application was created to get children more involved in reading as well as to monitor and test a child's literary knowledge. The KidRead project consists of the website kidread.com and Android application for multimedia readers and tablet computers.
  • ReadRate – a search-and-recommend service whose main goal is to help users to select books. The ReadRate online platform may help users with information on the most popular books and inform them about book ratings, literary preferences, feedback, and reviews by other users.
  • References

    PocketBook International Wikipedia