PocketBook is a multinational company specializing in the design of e-readers, as well as multimedia readers and Android tablets, under the PocketBook brand.
PocketBook Company
The company was founded in 2007 in Ukraine and its headquarters are located in Lugano, Switzerland.
PocketBook is the fourth largest manufacturer of e-readers in the world.
Development and manufacturing
Products are assembled in Foxconn, Wisky and Yitoa factories.
Geography of sales
The company’s products are sold in 30 countries around the world: in Western Europe, Central Europe, and Eastern Europe; in the CIS countries and the Baltic States but also in Israel, Australia, New Zealand. In December 2013, PocketBook sold 2,000,000 devices.
PocketBook projects
KidRead
a project that helps manage the time a child spends on a mobile device. This unique application was created to get children more involved in reading as well as to track and evaluate their literary knowledge. The KidRead project is compatible with the Android application as well as with media players, computers and tablets.
ReadRate
a search and recommendation service to help users choose books. The ReadRate online platform can help users with information about the most popular books and inform them about book ratings and users’ literary preferences. There are also comments and reviews by other users.
BookLand
an electronic platform of PocketBook offering fiction, education and literature books as well as journals in electronic format. BookLand offers over 1,500,000 titles in 17 languages.