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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm sorry you feel the world ends at the US Borders But I assure you, it doesn't. eBooks are sold outside the USA. Trust me on this one. I do not know where you get your 80% from, but it's wrong. And outside the USA, ePub is #1 and inside the USA, more places have ePub then have any other format. So please, before you make statements like that, know that the USA is not the only country in the world.
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Here's the link
http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknews...10_b5638?c=rss
And don't be insulting, particularly when you have no facts on your side. I know well that the US isn't the only country in the world, having spent several years, you know, living outside the US. But none of that is relevant to the fact that the vast majority of e-book sales are taking place inside the US. (And, for that matter, the Kindle has a decent presence in the UK, Australia, and Canada.)
None of this should be surprising if you are paying attention - there aren't any booksellers equivalent to the Kindle store, B&N store, or even the sony store (which I believe is US only, although the device is sold worldwide). There was recently a discussion noting that Germany - the largest country in the EU and a country with a large paper book market - had only .5% of the global e-book market.
Europe (and Asia, although Asia is much more fragmented) is a lot like the US was in 2006, before the introduction of the Kindle. There's nothing insulting about that; it is what it is.
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Originally Posted by kennyc
Supporting links please.
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Okay, I made poor use of multiquote. See above.