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Originally Posted by astra
So, you would prefer if they said No no to Sony and left you without even half-criplled-English-interfaced Sony reader? (because I am almost sure they would not go to all the trouble of making French interface, French website and French books right now, probably in future - yes, but right now English market is already operating and expanding it from the USA to Canada is not a problem)
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As an anglo Canadian, my opinion is Quebeckers should be able to read in French, whether that's an advertisement, a print book or an ereader.
If that means the Sony ereader is not available in Canada until it gets a French interface, and I have to order one from the US at markup -- that's an interesting question. It would limit my own personal reading choices, but at the same time, it would probably help expand the reading choices of my fellow citizens in Quebec.
How do you answer a question like that?
If Quebeckers raised enough of a fuss about this (as I believe has been done in the past over things like video games in French ), then Parliament would pass a law. And in that case I would support it. But I think this is a case of the audience for ereaders being too small at the moment to influence politics. Maybe once ereaders reach critical mass in the population things would change.