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Originally Posted by Yapyap
However, as far as I've gathered, ebooks are very much only starting to emerge properly in non-English language markets - even in some countries where they've been around for a couple of years, we're talking, what - 20-40,000 titles at best (French and German), compared to English where the number of books is easily 30-50 times that? And in other markets, we're talking about maybe having 500-1000 titles currently available.
That basically means that those markets haven't really had the ebook or e-reader awakening yet and are very far from saturation. Once the number of available titles becomes such that any potential reader will be able to browse and immediately see more than a handful of titles they might be interested in, the interest in e-readers in those markets should grow as well.
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Yes, that's why I mentioned earlier in this thread the significance of Amazon opening a Kindle eBook store in Brazil. There are currently enormous markets for eBooks and readers which haven't been tapped.