Kobo service offering two-week free trial of Canadian and U.S titles, but no Canadian magazines

Kobo, the e-reading service controlled by Indigo Books & Music, is offering a two-week free trial download of a menu of popular Canadian and American newspapers, and U.S. but, curiously not one Canadian, magazines. 

This offer includes digital editions of the following Canadian newspapers :

• Calgary Herald 
• Edmonton Journal 
• Montreal Gazette 
• National Post 
• Ottawa Citizen 
• Regina Leader-Post 
• Saskatoon Star-Phoenix 
• Vancouver Province 
• Vancouver Sun 
• Victoria Times-Colonist and  
• The Globe & Mail.  

 U.S. titles available included both newspapers and magazines:

• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• The Scientist
• The Seattle Times
• Wilson Quarterly 
• Foreign Affairs 
• American Scholar
• China International Business
• Columbus Dispatch
• Guideposts
• Harvard Business Review
• National Review
• New York Observer 
• PC Magazine
• Publishers Weekly
• Reason
• The Christian Science Monitor Daily Briefing and
  
• The Nation

Following the two week free trial, monthly subscriptions start at $13.99 for newspapers and $2.99 for magazines. The current edition of a newspaper or magazine can be immediately added to a customer's library,and with the subscription, customers will receive wireless delivery directly to their Kobo  iPad or iPhone apps or their Kobo Wireless e-Reader.  The new apps are available for download today on iTunes. Subscriptions and the free trials can be accessed directly from theiPad,iPhone, and the Kobo Wireless e-Reader's onboard store,or from the KoboNewsstand at www.kobobooks.com.

Indigo, Canada's largest bookstore chain, operates Kobo in partnership with Borders Group, REDgroup Retail and Cheung Kong Holdings .