Telegenisys

The limitations of the EPUB standard are forcing publishers to offer ebooks for the iPad as apps.

The other obvious advantages are that your catalog is searchable by keywords directly from iTunes and you don’t have to worry about running your own bookstore.

The obvious disadvantages are that since there are no private shared libraries each book is delivered with the entire overhead of an app (even if they all use exactly the same code), your library of books will clutter up the iPad’s “homepage” and each book will have to go through the Apple app review process.

Apparently Borders will soon open a private labeled Kobo store.

This is interesting because they use Adobe Digital Editions instead of trying to reinvent DRM all over again like everybody else. Finally ePublishing is becoming a service instead of a brand new cult at every outlet.