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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I guess library usage is not a big deal in the UK.
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Oh it is, but most people who buy Kindles only find out too late that they don't work with libraries in the UK, and/or the buyers are told/beleve/hope that the situation will change. I help out with an old folks' club, and a lot of them have been bought Kindles by well-meaning relatives, and are bitterly disappointed to find it can't be used with the library (which in many cases was one of the reasons for buying an ereader, so the user didn't have to actually go there).
One of the reasons Kindle dominates the market in the UK is that it seems to be the only one advertised on TV; beats me why WHSmith hasn't pushed the Kobo on TV, but they haven't. To watch TV or read newspapers in the UK, you'd think nothing other than the Kindle existed.