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Originally Posted by nikkie
Doesn't work.
Besides, the Sony eBooks are universally more expensive than B&N. So why buy?
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Thank you for the info - nice you tried it out.
I have no answer to "why buy". At this point in time I am more interested in answers to questions of technological feasibility.
As I said, I belong to the old way of doing things - MobiPocket. Amazon purchased MobiPocket and apparently no upgrades to software, unless it has the Amazon Kindle branding on it.
So for the iPad I am interested in technological possibilities. Each eBookStore on the Web tends to think of your eBook Library as belonging to them, but I try to keep my Master Library on my PC.
So in a brave new world with Kobobooks, B&N, FictionWise and the iPad I was hoping to register my PC and my iPad as authorized devices and keep my Master Bookshelf on my PC, transfer books to the corresponding iPad Library for a Reader I preferred.
Of course you see the problem - DRM. It is not some flavor of pure ePub for a lot of books. It is some ePub with DRM.
So what I am looking at, the reality I think, is multiple Master Libraries on my PC - one for each Web Bookstore. And each Master Library will have to have a corresponding iPad app - for that Web Bookstore.
And the idea of one eReader App on the iPad is a fantasy, reading a particular book means I will have to know which Web Bookstore I acquired it from. This is what I think I am looking at.
Or sign over my soul to iBooks, walk either path.