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As far as I can tell (of course only those at amazon know) the only real reason the Kindle isn't available outside the US is becouse of the Whispernet which, as far as I've understood, is a vital part of the Kindle. If Amazon made books DRM free, they could start selling the ebooks on all amazon sites and people like me who live in Norway could read the ebooks on our own ebook devices. This is of course if Amazon at all has the rights to distribute these books outside the US.
The advantage to this would be that they would open up their content to a much larger audiance than what they have now. I for one doubt that the Kindle will ever make it to countries like Denmark, Norway, Sweden Iceland, etc. If the Kindle needs a contract with a phone company for their whispernet, why would they spend time on a country with just 4.7 million people living there. Not even Sony has bothered to release their ebook readers here, so our only choice is to import devices ourselves. No big electronics stores in Norway sell them, basicly becouse the Norwegian ebooks are crap. For one thing they use the PDF format which doesn't support reflowable text properly. Ebooks were in the papers here recentyl, but now they are being ridiculed becouse the company that got the rights for producing them messed it up. So having amazon remove the DRM and selling their books to us would certainly make me happy as I could buy an ebook reader the next time I'm traveling. At the moment I've only got my computer for this.
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