10-07-2011, 11:34 AM | #1 |
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Amazon France: French-language Kindle and eBooks
The Amazon.fr Kindle Store was launched today. It will serve customers in France, Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. The new French-language Kindle is priced at 99EUR.
Here's the official Amazon press release: Amazon.fr Launches French Kindle Store and First French-Language Kindle. It was a thrill to see my husband's (English-language) ebook listed in the Amazon.fr Kindle Store this morning! |
10-07-2011, 12:09 PM | #2 |
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10-07-2011, 12:15 PM | #3 |
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What does annoy me on Amazon is that when searching for books it is not specify that I am only interested in books in English.
This seems to mainly be a problem when looking through the free books when I have to plough through lists of French and German books. |
10-07-2011, 12:17 PM | #4 |
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If you use the Advanced Search (under Books, not Kindle books), you can specify language as one of the search parameters.
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Added: It looks like this link will take you to the English-language ebooks at Amazon.fr, sorted by price, so the freebies will show up first. Last edited by DreamWriter; 10-07-2011 at 12:28 PM. |
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10-07-2011, 03:06 PM | #6 |
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I just visited amazon.fr, where I have often bought dt books in French, only to see that I can't buy any ebooks from there because my K3 is registered in England. (and that includes free classics.)
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10-07-2011, 03:09 PM | #7 |
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The same is true in reverse; people in France (or anywhere else outside the UK, come to that) can't buy eBooks from amazon.co.uk.
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Can't you register you kindle to France ? |
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10-07-2011, 03:24 PM | #9 |
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You can search in English only there :
http://www.amazon.fr/gp/browse.html?node=166922011 Also select format : kindle ebook. I just saw we also had access to e-books in German, Italian, spanish, and Portuguese. Don't the uk store have the French books too now ? Actually yes http://www.amazon.co.uk/R%C3%A9volut...8015617&sr=1-1 Last edited by EowynCarter; 10-07-2011 at 03:27 PM. |
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I mostly buy English books and I use amazon.co.uk for things other than books.
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10-07-2011, 03:38 PM | #11 |
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I got the message that I couldn't have a free book from Amazon France because my account is a UK one, but the same book (in French) was downloadable from Amazon UK. If it becomes a problem I might see if I can change my account to Amazon France.
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10-07-2011, 03:53 PM | #12 |
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