The company behind bookstores Borders and Angus and Robertson is in a lot of financial trouble at the moment. While they’ve been granted a slight stay of execution, they’re in administration, and things aren’t looking good. But given that Borders is the driving force behind eBook and eReader sales in Australia, what will happen to the budding electronic book market should RedGroup go completely under?
One of the things that really shits me about my Kindle is the fact that books from key authors aren’t available to me solely because I’m based in Australia. But according to Jason Davis over at BookBee, a blog dedicated to the digital book, a highly positioned source in the Australian publishing industry told him that there is no legal reason for Amazon to offer different books in Australia compared to the US.
