Indigo Books & Music

Indigo Books & Music Inc. operates as a book retailer in Canada. The company operates chapters.indigo.ca, an e-commerce retail destination, which sells books, videos, DVDs, music, and toys; and shortcovers.com, a digital destination offering online and mobile service that provides instant access to various books, articles, and blogs. As of March 29, 2009, the company operated a chain of retail bookstores, including 90 superstores under the Chapters, Indigo, and World's Biggest Bookstore names; 155 small format stores under the Coles, Indigo, Indigospirit, SmithBooks, and The Book Company banners; and 2 concept stores under the Pistachio banner. The company also has a 50% interest in Calendar Club of Canada Limited Partnership (Calendar Club), which operates seasonal kiosks and year-round stores in shopping malls across Canada. In February 2009, Indigo launched Shortcovers (www.shortcovers.com), a new digital destination offering online and mobile service that provides instant access to books, articles and blogs. History Indigo Books & Music Inc. was founded in 1940.

2 past transactions

Kobo

Series C in 2011
Kobo offers an open platform for e-reading. The platform supports many formats, including EPUB and PDF, and allows its readers to buy and read digital content from a variety of sources. Kobo offers an eBook store with nearly 4 million titles across 68 languages, varying from bestsellers, self-published works, and magazines to kids’ books. It provides e-reader apps for Apple, BlackBerry, Android, and Windows platforms. Bookmarks synchronize across devices so the readers can pick up where they left off from one device to another. Kobo offers its digital reading experience to millions of readers around the world in 190 countries through its website, bookseller, and retail partner network, represented by 17,600 locations around the world. Kobo was founded in 2009 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Kobo

Series A in 2009
Kobo offers an open platform for e-reading. The platform supports many formats, including EPUB and PDF, and allows its readers to buy and read digital content from a variety of sources. Kobo offers an eBook store with nearly 4 million titles across 68 languages, varying from bestsellers, self-published works, and magazines to kids’ books. It provides e-reader apps for Apple, BlackBerry, Android, and Windows platforms. Bookmarks synchronize across devices so the readers can pick up where they left off from one device to another. Kobo offers its digital reading experience to millions of readers around the world in 190 countries through its website, bookseller, and retail partner network, represented by 17,600 locations around the world. Kobo was founded in 2009 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
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