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Originally Posted by svda
The english level mentioned by Katsunamy is utter BS. Most of my books are dutch and I can and do read english. So can most of the readers of Ezzulia (forum). Why would reading behaviour differ just because it's electronic. If we buy dutch books (hardcopy), then we buy and read dutch ebooks. I must say that choice is very good in the Netherlands and I buy mine with "watermerk", never with adobe DRM. I also read english and german ebooks, but not the majority.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
NOBODY... NO - FRACKING - BODY is buying or even reading Dutch e-books compared to English ones, at least not among the people I know, except for one person because she can't read English. All others read in English and acquire their books outside of the Netherlands because of price, choice, and (in case of classics) the possibility to get them for free.
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It sounds reasonable to claim that ebooks and pbooks are very different when it comes to pricing/availability in Dutch vs. English. I expect a better disproof to Katsunami's claims than "Why would reading behaviour differ just because it's electronic".