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Originally Posted by Slite
It's not a question about beeing exclusive. It's a purely logistics reason the kindle havent been released in Europe as of yet. The reason beeing that they need to sign up whispernet operators in every single country in Europe before they can launch it here. Otherwise it is pointless to buy a Kindle in Europe, and then take a trip to, say Belgium which doesn't have a signed whispernet operator, and your Kindle is useless in that country.
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"Useless" is putting it a little strongly - you can upload books to the Kindle via USB, just like you can any other device. I do agree, though, that the wireless download of books is the key factor that differentiates it from other devices.