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Opinion - Friday, March 18, 2011 15:47 - 45 Comments
eBooks in Australia – What went wrong?
This article is by Darryl Adams, a government worker and internet tragic. A former IT worker, he still pines for the days of IBM keyboards that go CRUNCH and the glow of green screens. He can be found on on Twitter or on Facebook. Check out his site oz-e-books.com for more articles about e-book readers, retailers, formats and news (or will have when Darryl can be drawn away from reading Delimiter). The views expressed here do not reflect the views of his employer, the ATO.
opinion Last year there was a feeling that Australia was entering a new age of digital books. Borders introduced its Kobo reader, software and retail platform, Apple introduced its iBooks software and store and Amazon finally allowed Aussies to access the Kindle Bookstore and introduced a worldwide Kindle device. Yet almost a year later, we have REDGroup (owner of Borders) in administration, almost no commercially available books in the iBookstore and a limited range of titles available in the Amazon Kindle marketplace.
So what happened?
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