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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
You think Amazon's influence on e-book prices and publishers joining the e-book frenzy will have no effect on the e-book movement in Europe?
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Well, not "no effect", but I'd go with "no significant effect" for the next couple of years, until Amazon start selling other eBook formats or selling Kindles to the non-North American market.
I'd not argue against it being a motivator to publishing houses to get into the market, but I suspect that they'll attempt to just sell to the US Kindle market via Amazon, rather than selling multi-format world-wide & I expect any 'trickle-down' to be minimal.
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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
The prize of this particular contest is the Kindle, and as much as we regret it, Amazon does not sell the Kindle to customers outside the US.
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True, but it wouldn't it be legitimate to have MR or some other US-based entity buy it, then gift it to the winner? I can understand that Amazon or their PR group might put restrictions on it if they were funding the purchase, but your announcement states it's MR, not Amazon behind it...