The reinvented Borders site, sure enough, features a Sony Reader store—offering both the Reader and books in that format.
Let’s hope that ePub, not just the proprietary BBeB, will soon be an option in time, ideally without traditional DRM. Here’s a chance for Borders and Sony to help people own books for real—while also beating Amazon to the punch. Remember, Amazon did an MP3 store sans DRM.
Question: What are the pros and cons of buying e-books—the content—via Borders-Sony as opposed to the Sony e-book store?
Related: Multimedia section of the Borders site where you can see and hear authors ranging from Jimmy Carter to poet Jorie Graham. Also see AP story and Techmeme roundup. What will Barnes and Noble do with the site if it buys out Borders, a possibility it is now studying? Meanwhile, the separately owned Borders UK is selling iLiads.
To answer your Q…I’m not seeing a difference in the Borders/Sony store – just a name change on the Sony store site. I downloaded the new “borders/sony store” and I got my same Sony store site with “Borders” on it. I was initially excited to think that purchasing may be different now, but I don’t think that is the case (you can’t purchase books in advance like you can if you go to the store or like B&N).