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Originally Posted by garygibsonsf
According to an article on the Bookseller website,
"Borders will begin selling e-books on its site from April. It will sell e-books that are available from Gardners' digital warehouse, which has more than 60,000 titles. Gardners already fulfils orders of physical books on Borders' website."
This is apparently part of a deal whereby Gardners, a book wholesaler, is looking at supplying ebooks to several major booksellers. Given that The Bookseller is (I believe) a UK publication, I think this deal involves only the UK branches of Borders rather than those Stateside. But still one more step towards an increased number of outlets, and (hopefully) towards greater choice and competition. |
Is there any indication that BritBorders will pull an Amazon and only sell within the boundaries of the UK? Or that they will be operating with the atrocious Sony Library?
I have on occasion had to purchase treebooks from UKAmazon or other Brit sellers because the books were not available in the US, and once in a while run into a problem with being able to buy them at all, not being within the UK. For instance, I found it very difficult to acquire some of the volumes of the most recent translation(s) of In Search of Lost Time, though I was ultimately successful, being a stubborn...um, tenacious sort.
I've never grasped why Amazon blocks the sale of ebooks outside the US. Maybe someone can enlighten me...