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?
Not that you’d ever know it from looking at their website, but Dymocks has informed me after my post last week that they sell more than one eBook reader. In fact, they sell seven.
So a couple of hours after Borders sent out an invitation to the launch of its new eBook and eReader store (which was in itself shortly followed by a promise to beat any Amazon book price online), Dymocks has sent out an announcement that it has started supporting the DNL and ePub eBook formats on their website. Yay for new DRM formats!
