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Originally Posted by nikkie
Yes, same deal - so far as I can tell, there is no way to add books to your Kobo library which you didn't purchase from them, and no way to open a book (in an email or other) in a specific application. It's possible there might be a way around this by downloading a third party file picker that you can specify which app "opens with", but I haven't found an app yet for it.
The only app that lets you read books not directly purchased from the app maker's library is Stanza, so far as I can tell. Stanza will let you read books from any source - email, website, stanza desktop, calibre catalog xml, etc. This is great, except that Stanza doesn't support Adobe ePub DRM. They were going to at one point, and then they were purchased by Amazon and the dev plan was dropped.
The only way I've found to read Sony ePubs on the iPhone at this point is to break the DRM and use Stanza.
I have heard well-substantiated rumblings, though, that Sony is making an app.
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Okay. I approached this from a different angle since I used to purchase eBooks in the olden days.
It *appears* that the old way, updated for the iPhone still work. The old way being "conduits".
If you go to Fictionwise you can purchase eBooks in ePub format. That is just the book. If you go check on the software Fictionwise suggests for the iPhone they reference you to eReader.com, this would be the Reader.
FAQ on eReader.com suggests you go to the iPhone App Store and download the eReader app onto your iPhone. FAQ on eReader.com suggests the book will be yours if you keep it on your PC.
So what I think I am understanding is there will be an eReader App on your PC, which will be the master library, and there will be an eReader App on your iPhone and you can read books on your phone - I think, could be wrong here - from
B&N.com
Fictionwise.com
eReader.com
Within the PC app, if you dragged a Sony ePub Book into your eReader Library - I have no idea what would happen.
The above is the olden way of doing things, and of course in 2010 it may all be broken.
Do not know if the above experiment accomplishes what you were trying to verify.
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What the above is talking about is purchasing directly onto your PC.
And that is how the new ways vary from the old. The portable devices have grown in power to where you can purchase directly onto the portable device, and once you have done that - I have no idea if you can recover.
Maybe? Maybe not?