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Originally Posted by Argel
Or it could be because they can't work out a deal with a phone company. Or it could be that they can't make enough to avoid the same kind of fiasco as greeted the US launch.
Why does everyone keep banging on about difficulties with publishers when Amazon/Mobipocket has been selling ebooks to the UK for years? Not even British publishers are stupid enough to think that they can keep ebooks out of the UK.
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Even that 'shortage' was a publicity stunt. The demand is so high that the price has actually gone ... eh, errrr... down! They are playing games with the consumers. Microsoft do this, Sony do this, even Apple do this (but at least they bring out good products after all the fuss), now Amazon have also joined the same crowd. Read somewhere, "Consumer is not the 'king', s/he is not even a subject. S/he is downgraded to an abject 'object' with which advertisers and marketers play games."