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I think there may be good reasoning behind NOT having gone international yet. Given that others have commented on the risk Amazon took even entering the hardware market with an e-reader, if Amazon recognized this risk from the beginning, then a limited release would make sense.
I would say it would be "blindlingly obvious" once they were more confident that the effort would meet with a reasonable degree of success. I suspect that Jeff Bezos likes to make money, at least I hope he does, so when he's reasonably sure that it will be profitable to go international and they work out all the details, we will probably see an international version.
Does anyone think the Kindle is a success yet or that it may be too premature to make that determination? Yes, they seem to have sold lots of units in the first few months, but I think it takes a little longer to determine the staying power of the device and their ebook market.
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