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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Ah - I think I must have misunderstood you. I thought you were using "here" to mean MobileRead, but perhaps you meant your location - Krewerd, in the Netherlands.
Looking at Amazon.nl, I see that there are only 31,341 Amazon books in Dutch. Wow, that's low.
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I'm sorry, yes, I meant "here" as in "here, in the Netherlands, with Dutch language books".
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Um, you do know that you can download Google Books purchases for Adobe Digital Editions and sideload to any ADE-compatible EPUB ereader, right? And despite that advantage, Amazon is still in a superior position to Kobo, worldwide.
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That's why I said, connect directly to the Google store, like you can connect to the Kobo store. People buy Kindles because they don't need a PC to put books on their ereaders. But if I were to buy books from Google, I need to install something from Adobe, download something from that link I got, which isn't a book, open that with that Adobe application and only then will I be able to download the book. No idea how to get it on my Kobo after that, actually (I don't have ADE installed on my PC, so can't really say how it goes...)
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I assume "here" is somewhere where a non-English language predominates... such places typically have a lower ebook penetration on general principle, and entrenched interests which do produce ebooks are AFAIK mostly selling through their own EPUB platforms, not through Amazon or Kobo.
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Actually, most epubs are sold by kobo/bol.com, not any own epub platform.