http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/ Engadget Comments for Borders' Kobo-powered eBook Store now live with 1.5 million titles, Android and BlackBerry apps (update) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 7:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/ plenty of ebook stores with their own format ebooks isn't....hopefully they come out with a standard ebook format (if the don't have more popular ones now)]]>Jul 7th 2010 7:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
If the industry could've survived with the margins they were making from the Kindle (which by many accounts they could've, it just would've taken adjusting their business-model), and the extra book stores don't lead to extra content, then consumers are worse off because we are paying higher prices now that the wholesale supply chain is gone. So, it can't be "Just a good thing." Though, overall, it can be "a good thing", but it's a mixed-bag. ]]>Jul 7th 2010 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
As much as I would love to see that, the only way any of these companies would go for something like that is if it was their format that was being made the standard. ]]>Jul 7th 2010 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
iPad = ePub
B&N = ePub
Sony = ePub
Borders = ePub
Amazon = Mobi

Looks like we are getting pretty close to a standard by default. Maybe the Kindle owners will wake up and smell the coffee at some point. ]]>Jul 7th 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
Seems like the description summed it up. Primarily ePub then PDF. I couldn't find where it said their own special format. Wish I knew how to pretend read.]]>Jul 7th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
yes true, they are all ePub, but that doesn't necessarily mean things are as standardised as they seem. I just bought a cheap Mass Effect eBook from Borders, however it uses Adobe DRM. Sure, I can put the ePub in iTunes and sync to my iPhone but iBooks can't open it. I need to use the dedicated Borders app which requires me to be connected online and is pretty slow at loading pages as I read them.

I can understand the need for DRM. But ideally I would be able to buy my ePubs from anywhere, load them in iTunes, sync to iBooks and read. I don't want a whole bunch of eBook apps on my phone.]]>Jul 7th 2010 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Well.. That is kind of down to Apple deciding to do their own iePub. The apple version is still ePub, which is an open format. Basically an HTML page in a zip file, but the DRM Apple use is unique to Apple and iBooks. And no.. I somehow doubt you could bring it into iTunes and convert, because that would mean Apple is breaking the DMCA.

Sony and many other brands use standard ePub, but also have got on board the Adobe DRM system. So books can be transferred from one reader to another and it works on a central account system with multiple registered devices from a multitude of brands and any shop that sells the ADE e-books.

So your choices..
Use Apple's reader and only buy wholesome DRMed e-books from Apple.

Or use a dedicated reader or reader app, and have a choice of outlets.
Or
Skip DRM until it gets found to be too much trouble and too little protection that loses too many sales. ]]>Jul 7th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
Fact check please. I've had the Kobo app on my G1 for weeks now. Not the Shortcovers app, the actual Kobo app. I think a few more enterprising hackers even have it installed on rooted nooks and Pandigital readers.]]>Jul 7th 2010 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
Wat a sec, just by going to the Borders homepage and checking, I discovered that yes there is a Blackberry app available as well.

Remember always, always check and double check your primary sources.]]>Jul 7th 2010 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
I don't suppose you considered the fact that maybe they weren't available when the story was posted?]]>Jul 7th 2010 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
Did you actually read what I posted? ]]>Jul 7th 2010 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
Subtle.]]>Jul 7th 2010 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
The Kobo Android app is a strict port of the iPhone app with horrible performance, an iPhone UI that doesn't translate over well and squished and horrible resolution graphics and interface. I jumped to Kindle and rebought my book the second it came to Android.

I think I'm done ebook-app hopping. Unless the prices at Borders are downright amazing, which they're clearly not, Kindle app it is.]]>Jul 7th 2010 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/I hate that, Borders must think the Android marketshare is small enough that they don't have to do much to appease it. I shop there regularly, but now I'm pissed at them for the crappy UI they gave us for their eBook reader app. My phone is NOT an iPhone!]]>Jul 7th 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/
Well, this is BRAND NEW (false, wrong, blatantly misleading, etc.) INFORMATION Engadget. I will be sure to let my dedicated Nook e-reader know that all of those books I've purchased and downloaded from Sony, from Fictionwise, from Kobo, from Baen, from BooksonBoard, etc., were not compatible with it's system.

Oh and the two library books I currently have checked out on my device--all an illusion.]]>Jul 7th 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/]]>Jul 7th 2010 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/07/borders-kobo-powered-ebook-store-now-live-with-1-5-million-titl/Jul 7th 2010 7:38PM