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But it is growing in Europe. People are posting on this board about buying Kindles in Europe. There are regularly questions about which Kindle store do they use if they live in Spain or Italy or Croatia.
And the big publishing houses don't care who is selling their books as long as they make money. They never refused to sell to Borders and BN in the US even when the book stores were offering huge discounts on books. The only reason Agency Pricing hit the US and now Europe is because Apple insisted on it when it opened IBooks.
I would not be surprised to hear that the Kindle App is widely used throughout Europe. Which means that people are getting used to Kindle and the format and probably finding what most Americans have found, the Kindle works great and the books are fine.
Yes Amazon needs to add more foreign language content. I am sure they are working on that.
And we still have not had anyone say why the onus is on Amazon to sell both formats and not Sony, Kobo, and BN.
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