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Originally Posted by CommonReader
I'm not so sure about that. Is there any non English speaking market where Amazon has achieved such a dominant position as it has in the US.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
As for how successful Kindle might be, well; How successful is amazon.de right now? How long have they been in Germany and what print book market share do they command? How about their other products? CDs, DVDs, games, electronics, etc...
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amazon's pretty much _the_ place to shop online here. The German version has been around for over ten years.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
No rumor; they were publicly advertising for content acquisition managers for France and Germany just a couple weeks back.
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Aye, but there is no official word on when exactly the local kindle stores are going to go online afaik.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The single most important promotional vehicle for Kindle is the Amazon home page so if Amazon has a significant online presence, Kindle will be front and center every time people go to shop at Amazon. Add in its generally lower prices and it shouldn't have trouble getting visibility outside the hobbyist community.
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I agree.
One of amazon's major competitors already put a note on their website saying that their ebooks won't work on the kindle. That's pretty big considering that right now amazon don't even sell it here and you have to order it via the US website. (And thus pay much more money for the device. $280 for the 3G version, to be exact.)