By: weg

weg — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:51:08 +0000

Since Borders didn’t really make a commitment, I wonder whether you can even call them “partners”. The situation would have been slightly different if Borders had offered eBooks, but all they did offer the iLiad without even really advertising it (in Oxford, you had to ask explicitely for a demo, and you had to wait 10-15 minutes to get some hands-on experience with the actual device). Now (only two months after it was released) it seems to have vanished completely from the shelves of Borders. The Border’s webpage doesn’t even mention it anymore. If there’s anybody to be disappointed then it’s iRex, and not Borders. Borders really did a half-assed job, hoping that they could repeat the success of the Kindle without any effort at all - the chair of Borders UK doesn’t seem to have any idea about the whole business.. if Apple hadn’t provided iTunes, then the iPod would never have been that popular. Honestly, I would have bought that thing if there’d been any commitment of Borders that they’d actually provide some content for it (for a price slightly - e.g., 20% - lower that the paperback version of the book).

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