Looks like Barnes and Noble may have a long uphill battle selling it's Nook reader in Germany...
"Compared to the booming e-book market in the US, Germany's digital book sales are dismal. A set of cultural and economic factors mean that even in a country known for its bibliophilia, the technology will take a long time to catch on."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...826963,00.html