Ahhh, now that's soooo different, if you'd said Futuresource Consulting then that'd have been different (and this is from someone who lives in the UK)...
Well known UK company, worldwide, absolutely trusted and reliable... who???? And what company posts an article in their own blog with a quote as though it's from a third party... themselves?
And if you were so worldwise then you'd realise that other countries do have the equivalent of some of you "wonderful" US stores... for starters the UK has Waterstones which IS the Sony Store and supports multiple eReaders from other companies. People have happily been using ereaders outside the US since the first ones came out and sourcing their books from wherever they could get them... which, in many cases, meant the US but doesn't mean most are sold in the US just from the US...
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
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.
Okay, I made poor use of multiquote. See above. |