Kono digital inc. , a Silicon Valley Tech startup, has been not just delivering the best magazine reading experience on mobile, but now is entering the B2B domain in Japanese publishing industry. Smarticle, the AI enabled platform for extracting to build structured data from PDF is going to deploy suites of applications into areas of marketing for the print to digital media. Kono Application Suites for B2B: Easy2Read, AI recommend/curation, Text2Speech, All Text Search, Text2MUI(machine translation) Multi-Format Conversion: PDF to JSON/XML, EPUB (Fixed/Refow), Apple News Format, etc Business solutions on content marketing (All you can read quality magazines) : For Libraries/Cafe/Beauty salons/Car dealer shops/inbound foreign visitors from the Greater China region/Japan

1. Kono
More Value. Better Reading.
May. 2019

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Founded 2011 in Silicon Valley, Kono, is the
top rated digital magazine service and
technology provider based in US and Taiwan.
Today, we have team members in US, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, and Japan.

3. Subscription-based
“All You Can Read” Model
12,000+ magazine issues from 350+
publishers in Taiwan, HK, and Japan
Magazines covering all major
categories - Business, Design,
Fashion, Entertainment, Hobbies,
Science/Technology, and Lifestyle
Users
across 50
countries
App Store
Ratings

4. Kono’s Exclusive
“Easy2Read” Mode
Kono’s Smarticle™ Technology is a
high efficiency content extraction
technology. It automatically adjusts text
size and image layouts to best fit
device’s screen size.

5. Explore Content with Ease
Kono have over 500,000+ articles in
the database. Using AI
recommendation engine, editorial
curation and text-based content
search, users can easily find individual
articles of interest.

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High-profile users with phenomenal growth
Kono focuses on providing consistently quality content and services to
attract users to stay with us.
560

7. #1. 35-44 Male #2. 25-34 Female #3 35-44 Female; 25-34 Male
Core User demand: high quality and efficiency

8. User’s countries/ regions
Others include Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and other ASEAN countries

9. Gender Country
Chinese Library

10. Gender Country
Japanese Library

11. Chinese Library
Popular Category
Japanese Library

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Kono Magazine Kono Reading ServiceKono for Libraries
New Business Solutions
Kono offers multiple business models and industry solutions for digital
content delivery.
Content-wise, here in Japan, to cover inbound segment,
together with new text2MUI (multilingual translation)

13. Kono’s Technology

14. Smarticle™ Technology & Process Overview
Smarticle™ helps publishers to build an
enormous content database categorized by
magazine articles, converting PDF files into
json, html5, ePub, Apple News Format (ANF)
or other proprietary format.
Smarticle™ is a high efficiency content
extraction technology by Kono. It can easily
separate magazines into individual articles,
extract texts and images. Content can be
freely searched, reused and resale according
to article attributes, and keywords.

15. Kono Smarticle Database Applications

16. Kono Application Suites

17. Kono Application suites
PDF mode Easy2Read Dark mode Text2Speech
Powered by Google/Apple

18. Kono Application suites
AI Recommend Curation Curation & AI Recommend All Text Search

19. Kono Application suites
Text2MUI (Multilingual User Interface)
Powered by Google
Chinese English Korean Spanish

20. Kono Application suites
Multi-Format Conversion
Fixed/Reflow

21. Kono Application suites
Video
● Easy2Read
● Personalized Recommend (AI) & Curation
● Search (not just by index to cover all texts)
● Text2Speech (by Google/Apple)
● Data conversion (JSON, Epub Reflowable/Fixed
layout, ANF, proprietary format)
● Language Translation Text2MUI (powered by
Google)

22. Now our strategic partners includes telecom companies,
hotels & accommodations, and publishers around the world.
more
coming
from
Japan

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Visit Kono
Website
Download
Kono App
Headquarter
229 Polaris Ave. Suite 9., Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
Taiwan Branch
6F., No.109, Sec. 2, Keelung Rd., Xinyi Dist., Taipei City 110,
Taiwan R.O.C. +886-2-2733-2666
www.thekono.com | support@thekono.com
Kono Digital, Inc.
Kono Japan, KK.
Contact our Country Manager: Ishii,Takayuki