Thread: "Most e-books in The Netherlands are not paid for."
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Old 02-07-2014, 03:23 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Reading behaviour differs BECAUSE reading is now electronic.

Now, when reading in English, people can shop around the world, instead of only shopping in Dutch stores. It greatly lowers the price of reading.

With regard to paper, most Dutch stores only stock Dutch translations of books; if it's not translated, the book is not available, and needs to be ordered, making the price of the English book even higher than the Dutch translation. The waiting time can be two weeks.

Online stores mostly have the English versions for about the same price as the Dutch ones (or a bit cheaper), but more often than not, the delivery time is 5-7 working days.

The delivery time of an ebook is not 5-7 working days: it's 5-7 seconds.

If you use an e-reader, you're basically committing literary suicide if you only read Dutch books. Not enough choice, not enough places to shop, too expensive.
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I was going to hypothesize exactly this (or near enough) but I got lazy...
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