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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
By ignoring most of the world ? As long as the books on amazon are english only, they won't get far...
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You may not like it but English is the dominant language in the book world (as well as others) so perhaps you should get your government to subsidise French only versions of eReaders to align with other "cultural" financial support for the Francophone segment of the world or follow the Chinese route (although they definitely have the numbers to do it) and develop versions purely for their own demographic...
Not specifically supporting the entire world doesn't seem to be having a terribly detrimental effect on Amazon so far... perhaps when the areas supported reach saturation then they may be more inclined to worry about the "rest of the world" but I wouldn't hold your breath...
In any case, the books on Amazon aren't only English... I've seen Russian, French, German and...