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Originally Posted by maianhvk
hmm. I think Belgium is closer to the US than Vietnam is, but it takes almost 3 weeks to deliver kindle? unreasonable. I only had to wait 10 days from the day I ordered, and I got it yesterday!
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There are probably seperate production runs for the International Kindle and the US Kindle because the International Kindle uses a different SIM card.
The Kindle is just getting started outside the US. With many international bookstores prefering EPub books to Mobi and having to negotiate with different in publishers in different countries, and having to deal with different countries law regarding the sale of books and e-books, the demand for Kindles outside the US is hard to judge. My guess is that Amazon has not run too many large production runs for the International Kindle because of those issues and has been caught off guard with the demand.
I would expect that Amazon will adjust its numbers and that the delays in shipping the International Kindle will diminish. But first Amazon has to make up for the existing gap.
Keep in mind that both the K1, K2, and K3 sold out at various points in time in the US. Moving into new markets is tricky and sometimes the numbers are off. Hapily for Amazon the numbers have been off on the positive side, ie too much demand for the current supply.