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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
And yes, the people on this board are a small percentage of the people buying e-readers. So if a small percentage are finding their way here to ask about the Kindle and talk about their Kindles, how many more are out there using Kindles that are not posting here.
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In Continental Europe Kindles are almost exclusively bought by customers who are mainly reading English language books and who are converting all other books into mobi with Calibre. These conversions often don't work very well, particularly so with regard to Umlaute and other letters that aren't being used in English. Amazon hasn't even bothered to offer the Kindle with a user interface in the local languages. There is no large, silent group of happy users. BTW, not even the warez sites are using mobi.
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
No where have I said that the Kindle is the most popular e-reader in Europe only that it is developing and growing its presence in Europe and across the globe. A year ago I was in New Zealand and Australia. The only e-readers I saw were Kindles. The security guard who checked my bag looked at my Kindle and went "You have the first generation? Are you going to buy the second?" And New Zealand wasn't even able to buy the Kindle at that point. What does that tell you?
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That's very nice for Amazon but both countries are English language countries.