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Originally Posted by krischik
Only 5% of the human population live in the USA. Dropping 5% of potential customer base where competition is fierce makes good business sense to me. It is only a tiny part of the market after all.
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But far more than 5% of the people in the world that can afford a luxury item costing hundreds of dollars live in the US. If the prices readers are going for in the US isn't high enough for them, they certainly aren't going to make it in the large portions of the world where people attempt to survive on
less than $2.00 a day.
Which isn't to say that there is no large market outside the US-- just that it is nothing even remotely close to 19x the potential size of the US market.