New kid on the ebook block
Dymocks have announced today that they will start selling ebooks. Purchases are online for now, but they’ll start selling in-store as a “dump to memory card” deal fairly soon and they’re also talking up on-demand print.
Formats are Mobipocket, Adobe Reader, and Microsoft Reader. It looks like the Adobe versions are DRM-free.
Prices are ~30% lower than physical books.
They’ve also announced they’re now selling audiobooks online, but this is basically just a rebranding of Audible. Presumably the value-add here is the in-store marketing, something Audible can’t really do itself.
(Note for the non-Australians: Dymocks is one of the big book-store chains here. Unlike some I’ll refrain from naming they also have a pretty decent reputation.)
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