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Originally Posted by boxcorner
Amazon is already selling e-readers in Germany and France:
What do you mean by manipulation? |
Amazon is selling the Kindle in Germany but they don't have any German content to sell with it. While it's no problem to buy most recently published books as epubs at various shops, Amazon basically doesn't have any books in German at all. Apparently Amazon isn't able to conclude any licensing deals on their own terms with the large publishing houses. Apart from brands created by large book chains like the Oyo-Reader of the Thalia chain (comparable to the FNAC-Reader in France) Sony readers are the only ones widely on display both in book stores as well as in department stores and the large retail markets for electronic products.