Borders and Kobo join forces for e-reader device they can call their own

Fashionably late to the e-book handheld party, Borders and Kobo declared today a partnership that includes plans to amend and promulgation both an e-reader and e-book service. Mum's the authorised word on hardware, but The New York Times Bits journal is claiming there'll be "more than digit version" released, every with wireless connectivity and every oversubscribed at Borders retail locations, naturally. Unfortunately, there's no promulgation date or pane mentioned on that front. As for the service, the duo are attractive a tender from Barnes & Noble's playbook and claiming device neutrality, meaning they'd same to wager their ePub-focused platform available to any and every devices possible, form ambulatory to screen and everything in between. Sounds great, but what we're really stabbing to hear most is this new e-reader -- let's wish they've been attractive notes on the successes and failures of their most unmediated competitors.