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Kobo kicked off its European expansion last week, with the announcement of its plans to launch local content stores in Germany. Local additions are also coming for Spain, France, Italy and the Netherlands. Some of Kobo’s recent achievements include: An e-book store that has more than 2.3 million e-books, newspapers and magazines. More than 3.2 million users, more than 1 million new users in the past 90 days. via emoney.

On Thursday, the Toronto-based e-publishing startup will launch Reading Life, a new e-reading iPad application that integrates with the company’s digital bookstore designed to bring social-networking capabilities to the world of electronic books, in a sort of Book Club 2.0. Through the opt-in service, Kobo users will be able to directly share with their friends what books they’re reading and share favourite passages through Facebook, keep tabs on their reading history through a comprehensive statistics tracker and earn badges and rewards for reading in a manner reminiscent of social check in services like Foursquare and Gowalla.

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