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Old 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!
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Old 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.
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Old 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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Old 10-07-2011, 12:22 PM   #5
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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.
Unfortunately, I cannot read French, but when I run this web page through Google Translate, it looks like you can find English-only ebooks in the Amazon.fr Kindle Store: http://www.amazon.fr/foreign-languag...node=784566031. Sí?

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.

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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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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.)
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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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.)
When i tried downloading an extract from amazon, it said my kindle account was a us one, and i had to convert. I i changed the account to France.

Can't you register you kindle to France ?
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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

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When i tried downloading an extract from amazon, it said my kindle account was a us one, and i had to convert. I i changed the account to France.

Can't you register you kindle to France ?
I mostly buy English books and I use amazon.co.uk for things other than books.
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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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I mostly buy English books and I use amazon.co.uk for things other than books.
Then you can get the book in french from amazon uk it seams.
Amazon seams to be properly recognizing that thing called Europe, the same Geo-restictions seams to apply
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