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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Good sleuthing Solicitous. The plot thickens.
Dale
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Originally Posted by HarryT
It doesn't make a great deal of sense that this would be made for the Australian market because Australia, like Britain, pronounces the letter "Z" as "Zed", not the American "Zee", so the prefix "EZ" doesn't have the meaning of "Easy" that it does in the US.
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You're right, the letter "Z" pronunciation in Australia is "Zed" but when the letter "Z" is in a word it is sounded as "Zee", think Zebra, PEZ - you know the lolly dispenser (we don't say "p-e-zed", we say "pez" . Don't forget us Aussies have been growing up with Seasame Street since day one, so all the educated kiddies out there raised by their TV set pronounce "Z" and "Zee" probably anyway
All I know is Robert said something big was happening down here in Australia with Astak, and things started to move forward (ie:
www.ezread.com.au and now what appears to be the reader released for Australia to be affiliated with the EZRead bookstore), but somewhere along the line it either fell through or what we see now is the best attempt to enter the Australian market. Either-way I find it a little disheartening as Astak seem to have a small but loyal crowd here in Australia and a good potential market and to not tap in and let us all know about it.......well it speaks volumes IMHO.
Jen, you're being rather quiet here of late. Can you enlighten us about why
www.ezread.com.au no longer works and provide some info about this ereader???