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Originally Posted by Moejoe
The problem isn't so much the format (ePub is a great format, I love it). The problem for ePub and the book stores that back it, is that Amazon are offering, and continue to offer the least complicated reading experience around their own proprietary format. This year is the tipping point, and it'll tip in Europe with a price as low as £109 and with the Amazon brand behind that price, you'll get a lot of non-technical adopters who'll buy this come Christmas.
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In the UK maybe.
For France, amazon will need to get along with the french publishers firts. Most French don't want to bother with reading English.
In the meantime, Bookeen and Sony have been offering access to the main French stores for a few years...
Amazon will have a hard time convincing people to convert their e-book.