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There are shops like buecher.de with a reasonable selection of ebooks. Obviously they can only sell what the publishers are providing. Some publishers seem to be moving slowly into the right direction. Haruki Murakami's new novel 1Q84 (apparently not published in English yet) was a big seller in Germany last year and it was available as an ebook right from the start for a cheaper price than the HC (still a hefty 26.99 € instead of 32 € for the HC, though).
Ebook readers (mostly Sonys) are increasingly available at bookshops and consumer electronics shops.
The publishers really do have to decide on the strategy they want to pursue as there is a very substantial selection of German ebooks available in the darknet.
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