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Originally Posted by BWhite
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?
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Doesn't work. Tried it when they first started the change over at B&N and Sony. If you drag a Sony book to your B&N reader on your desktop, it does not add it to your library.
The old eReader app will do the same, AND I don't think the old eReader app supports Adobe ePub anyway.
I also looked through the app store for a file explorer that might provide a hack, but didn't find one.
My final idea would be to jailbreak your iPhone and place a sony ePub inside the B&N data folder and see if the app recognizes it. Not keen on it though since jailbreaking means you have to un-jailbreak to update the iPhone firmware at all, which is irritating.
Besides, the Sony eBooks are universally more expensive than B&N. So why buy?