The text of an e-mail received last week is reproduced below.
Our question is - if Borders & Whitcoulls existing websites in respect of printed books are so useless, why should their websites for e-books be any better? The only reason people would have for going to the sites mentioned is that they are likely to find an excellent range, and that's not at all what they would have found so far in respect of printed books.
Of course the attraction of e-books to this organisation is that, unlike printed books, once their IT people set it up for them they don't actually need to do anything more, they just sit back and wait for expected profits to flow in.
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Hi,
I am writing to you today on behalf of Kobo, the eBook retailer powering eBook sales for Angus & Robertson and Borders in Australia and New Zealand, Borders in the US, and Indigo Books in Canada. We are partnered with REDgroup, and in anticipation of the eBook store that they are launching in May, we are actively canvassing the New Zealand publishing community to be sure we haven’t missed vendors with digital books for sale. If you do have eBooks availalble for sale, I would be very grateful if you could please direct this enquirty to the individual responsible.
Yours,
Meghan Paton
Co-ordinator Vendor Relations | Kobo | 416.977.8737 x3338
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