eBook Gripes

  So, lately I've become quite a fan of reading eBooks rather than physical ones. Yes real books are nice, and much more durable when accidentally dropped in the bath, but the convenience and instant availability of eBooks is a real winner for me. Plus they are cheaper, and cheaper is often a bonus.

  Availability in Australia is a real pain though. I can't wait for the day that there is one common format, and all the books available in print are available electronically. I think that day may be more than a few years off though.
     So far the majority of my eBooking has been on an iPhone via the Kindle app.  I was really excited when Borders made their eReader available.  Ok, so it may only be a Borders branded kobo app, but it does look a lot nicer IMHO.  Besides which, the main benefit of the Borders app was some competition for Kindle.  (The B&N eReader is available in Australia, has been for ages, but the books aren't - interesting marketing you got there B&N.)
     Anyway, I grabbed a sample book (The Night Angel Trilogy if anybody is interested, it's kind of trashy but I chew through a lot of books) and was almost immediately caught up in it.  Great I thought, I'll buy this one - and so much cheaper than I expected, it was a price I would expect to pay for one book of the trilogy as a paperback.  However, it's vanished from the Borders eBookstore, oops!  Probably I got it off the international store because somebody flicked the wrong switch when turning on the backend for the Borders app?
     Now if I want to keep reading I need to buy the books elsewhere, blegh.  I can get them as an eBook from Amazon, which is fine.... Except I need to buy all three individual books, it'll cost me a lot more than the price for the compiled trilogy.  I'll probably still do it but it's frustrating that it's so hard to actually buy something you want.  (I think to get an electronic copy it'd be easier to not buy it judging from the links that popped up when I searched for "Night Angel Trilogy eBook".)
     While I'm grumbling:  Borders, Amazon - you guys really need to get in app purchasing sorted out.  Being bumped out to safari is pretty annoying.  Borders one-ups amazon here by at least letting you browse the store from within the app.