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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Kindles are not as popular outside the US as you seem to think it is. ePub is the format outside the USA. And I am wondering how popular the Kindle is inside the USA.
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How many forum outside USA do you know? At the Spanish forum where I usually am, Kindle is very, very popular. Among all my coworkers and acquaintances, Kindle is the most popular reader (aside of Papyre) by long. I have to be saying all the time: "Please, Kindle is not the only ereader". And publishers... what I can say is that, some day, the format that the publishers sell will be important at my country, now, not a lot. And I've gone to another Spanish forum about books and, again, Kindle was the main option.
So, I can tell you that, at least inn Spain, Kindle exists, Sony not a lot because of the price, and the other companies (B&N, Kobo) are simply a noun, if somebody knows them (I was looking at a Blackberry tablet at a big store, it has the Kobo app inside, I told to my friend about it and the clerk told me that I was the first person who had known the app).