Kobo’s subscriber-based Kobo Plus has grown a lot over the years, and now they are adding Mexico and other Latin American markets to their global distribution.
As of May 1, 2025, the current regions Kobo Plus is available in now include Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
As an author, Kobo Plus gives you broad access to a new market of readers across the globe.
If you want to make sure you’re taking advantage of all available markets, you can opt your books into those markets and increase your discoverability and your chance for more revenue!
As a reminder, you must opt in to distribute your books to Kobo to be eligible for Kobo Plus distribution.
| If you have already agreed to be opted in as new territories open for Kobo Plus, congratulations! Your books are already on their way to all available new markets! If you have excluded any included territories from distribution, don’t worry! Your books will not be sent to those territories, per your request. Otherwise, a popup will greet you next time you log in, allowing you to opt-in all your Kobo Plus books to either all or select territories OR…You can simply select which territories you would like to join from the publish page of any of your books.  |
READER FOCUS MEANS EVERYBODY WINS
If you’re unfamiliar with Kobo Plus and how your royalties are handled, no worries! The Kobo Plus Payout Model is based on the number of readers subscribing and reading books through the service. This is a little different than some other subscription models you may have experienced. The revenue-sharing model is based on the number of subscribers that Kobo Plus gets.
The more subscribers the service has, the more revenue there is to share.
And now, with so many new territories joining the pool of subscribers is bound to increase. More people to discover your books!
Here are some of the advantages of opting in to Kobo Plus through Draft2Digital:
- No exclusivity—While you’re enrolled in Kobo Plus, you can distribute your books to any other online bookseller that you wish! There’s no exclusivity requirement to be in the program.
- Royalties—Royalties are based on the current Kobo Plus Payout, which increases as subscriptions rise. Your royalty share is based on a formula that takes into account the Minutes Consumed—the combined number of minutes read by paying subscribers in a given month.
- Reach an expanding market—Now that Kobo Plus is expanding into these territories you’ll reach English-speaking readers in a broad stretch of markets across the world. More opportunities to reach more readers and to earn more revenue! All with no extra effort on your part.
Draft2Digital and Kobo have always had a great relationship, and we’re thrilled to offer our authors this chance to reach even further.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email our support team at support@draft2digital.com.
Happy Publishing,
The Draft2Digital Team