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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
MobiPocket doesn't sell physical products.
Sony and Amazon are selling devices, which requires a distribution infrastructure to do so. Sony has some of that in place, since their consumer electronics are sold all over the world. Amazon is another matter.
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Dennis
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Amazon has subsidiaries all over too (.uk, .fr, .de and so on); My opinion is that it is too much trouble to sell electronics from the US store overseas (laws, warranties, voltage) and too much trouble for the subsidiaries to go sell the product since it's too marginal right now.
A small company like Bookeen is forced to try and sell anywhere it can and the potential loss is not big (small company goes under; happens all the time); Amazon and Sony are too big and stand to lose too much for a very marginal product if things go bad. If Amazon would sell Kindles in numbers like Ipods or Sony would sell the PRS in numbers like Play Station I would bet they would immediately start selling the readers anywhere too.