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Originally Posted by jbcohen
You are exploring things I did not think of, which is why I wrote this to begin with. Let's take this in two pieces, one in US and the other global. I have no idea who the major players are on a global scale.
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In the Netherlands, the big players are, in this order:
- Kobo
- Sony
- Apple iPad Mini and Google Nexus 7 (the split between the two is unknown to me), running an EPUB reader app.
The Kindle is almost non-existent except for the people who import it on purpose, for varying reasons. Most people don't dare to buy one of the smaller brands such as Icarus, Bookeen, Boox, and so on; there will be people who do, but I've only once seen a reader that was not a Kobo, Sony or Kindle in the wild. (Not counting my own Bokeen in 2007.) You can basically only get them online. I've never seen any reader besides Kobo's and Sony's in retail stores; not where I live at least.
The Nook doesn't exist here for all intents and purposes. I only know of one store that imports it, but very rarely sells them. It's always out of stock, so I think they import them on order.