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Originally Posted by carld
The average Kindle user buys their ebooks from Amazon and couldn't care less what format the books are in.
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If that "average user" reads English...
A French guy would expect being able to read in French. And would have some serious problem doing so.
Anyway, amazon seams to have zero plan for France at the moment.
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I think Amazon is also banking on the fact that once you have a Kindle and you have built up a substantial e-library of your own that you are going to be very hesitant to switch over to another e-reader. This is giving Amazon a whole set of people who will likely not switch over.
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the reverse is also true. By the time amazon decides to move in France, people might have some ePub library already, and refuse to switch over.
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I'm sure they wouldn't react well to "hey, convert all your books to mobi." They would probably react better to "hey, convert all your books to mobi and double/triple/quadruple/etc. your sales." Which is the context in which converting would come up. I think they would react quite favourably to that.
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How do to sell mobi book in France, when 99% having e-readers uses e-readers that don't reads mobi ?
For now, I don't had much problem with Amazon. As long as they don't make an exclusivity deal on a book I really want to read, i don't give a damm about them selling ePub or not.
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I'm just scared of what they could do. I don't want an e-reading world, with only one reader, and only one shop... That would sucks !
Oh, and I don't want to be stuck with the technically inferior mobi.