Kobo Black Friday 2026: Every Price and Last Year’s Cuts

The dates

When Kobo Black Friday 2026 starts

Kobo does not run on Amazon’s calendar, and it has not published its own yet. Its US eReader store showed every model at full price on 14 November, with no Black Friday page. The one report so far is Good e-Reader’s from 13 November: $30 off the Libra Colour from 20 November to 2 December, on Kobo’s site and through its retail partners. Treat it as a report until Kobo’s store shows the price.

Amazon’s dates matter here anyway, because Amazon is one of the places Kobo sells. Kobo’s own Where to Buy page lists Rakuten Kobo, Amazon.com, BlueProton and Walmart for the US, and Amazon’s Black Friday Week runs 19 to 30 November. Last year the Libra Colour bundles were discounted only on Amazon, because Kobo does not sell bundles on its own site.

The lineup

What every Kobo costs today

These are the prices on Kobo’s own US store on 14 November 2026, before any Kobo Black Friday cut. The store lists five readers; one of them can no longer be bought.

Two of those prices are new this year. The eBook Reader, which logs every Kobo sale, recorded a price rise in May 2026: $20 on the Clara BW and $30 on the Libra Colour. Kobo’s June “sale” then put both back at the prices they had sold for before the rise, $139.99 and $229.99. The Sage is a different case: The eBook Reader reported last December that it had been discontinued, so a Sage deal is not worth waiting for.

Last year

What Kobo cut last Black Friday, and in December

The eBook Reader’s Black Friday 2025 list had two Kobo readers on sale in the US. The Libra Colour dropped to $199.99 from $229.99, and the Elipsa 2E to $349.99, $50 off. The Libra Colour bundles were $30 off on Amazon. Neither Clara was included, and the Kobo Stylus 2 was not discounted at all.

Then by 12 December Kobo had started a holiday sale that ran until 26 December and took in every model it still sold: the Libra Colour at $199.99 again, the Clara Colour at $139.99, the Clara BW at $119.99 and the Elipsa 2E at $349.99. For the Claras, December was the sale that mattered.

The call

Which Kobo to wait for on Black Friday

Set today’s list prices beside the last twelve months and each model has its own number to wait for.

The Libra Colour is the Kobo Black Friday deal to watch. If the reported $30 cut is right, it lands at $229.99, the same as June and the best it has been since the May rise; last year’s $199.99 came off a lower list price. For reading in colour with page buttons and a stylus option, it is the Kobo that has been on sale most often this year.

For the Claras, history says wait. They skipped Black Friday last year and were $20 off in December. If you want a small waterproof reader before then, our waterproof e-reader guide compares the Clara BW with the readers around it, and the cheap e-reader guide covers everything under $150.

The Elipsa 2E is a writing tablet, and $50 off is a small cut on $399.99. Before you buy it on a sale, compare it with what the other writing tablets reach this week: our Kindle Scribe Black Friday and reMarkable Black Friday pages track those.

The prep

Where to buy a Kobo on Black Friday

In the US the same Kobo can be on four storefronts at four prices, so it pays to check more than one.

• Kobo’s own store sells the readers and accessories on their own, with a 45-day return shown on the product page. Last year it had the Elipsa 2E SleepCover on sale when Amazon did not.
• Amazon carries the bundles. Last Black Friday the Libra Colour case bundles were $30 off there and nowhere else.
• Walmart and BlueProton are Kobo’s other listed US sellers. The eBook Reader describes BlueProton as Kobo’s US reseller, with listings of its own on Amazon, so check the seller name, not just the price.

If you are still choosing between ecosystems rather than between Kobos, our Kobo vs Kindle comparison covers library borrowing, file formats and stores, and the Kindle Black Friday page has every Kindle price for the same week. For every brand side by side, see our best e-reader 2026 picks.

We will rebuild this page the day Kobo’s store shows its Black Friday prices. If you buy a Kobo during the sale at a price that is not here, tell us in the comments; a real receipt beats any roundup, and it goes into the next version of this page.

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