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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
I agree it's a language issue. Consider the lack of Amazon dominance in Germany and Europe.
Also Manga on a small e-reader just ain't great. Interestingly Amazon have produced a Manga-friendly Kindle for Japan. But at 6" it's pointless. I imagine the smallest that would work okay would be 9.7"
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I've tried to navigate an graphic novel or comic on a kindle. It isn't easy. Plain text is a lot more workable on ereaders. Eventually they may improve the technology to be able to handle such easier but it will be a while yet I think. And probably the first that really work well for it will be expensive just as the first ereaders were. I mean now you can find a Kindle for as low as $50.00 at Amazon I believe but when they first came out they were hundreds of bucks. The same with other media like TV sets. Back in the 1950's winning a TV set on a game show was a big deal because they were fairly expensive and people had to save for quite a while to buy one. Later they went down a lot, so did the VCR and then the DVD player. New technology is always expensive at first. I imagine the first printed books (while cheaper to make than hand copied volumes) were still somewhat expensive too. At least relative to the level of income that many people had back then.