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Originally Posted by doctorow
So what about non-US markets? Everything related to e-books is still in infancy. European publishers are trying to tell us that e-books are not important and that people want real paper. Let Sony do all the nasty talk with them. Let Sony do the beginning and allow Amazon to sit and observe. If the situation is right, Amazon can step in, and every publisher will follow them because they are just too big to be ignored.
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you are right that europe is just dipping toes in the water when it comes to ebooks, however european publishers who are starting to publish digitally now are almost all opting for the epub format, sometimes exclusively ; it's gaining momentum. i really hope amazon decides to add support for epub to the kindle ; to me this is the real flaw in what is otherwise an excellent device and i think a strategic mistake on their part ; they should really get behind the industry standard format.