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Originally Posted by netseeker
They are one of the biggest sellers in the pBook-market in europe and now they loose the young but growing eBook-market here just because ePub is on it's way to the defacto ebook standard here. I can't imagine that Amazon doesn't care about one of their biggest markets. More likely Amazon can't offer the kindle2 in europe because the world-wide E-INK production capacity doesn't allow much more kindles to be produced and because they need contracts with the european authors and publishers first to offer enough ebooks here. Most of our authors and especially our publishers are not the best friends of amazon yet.  |
I think the problem for amazon in Europe is more due to your last argument and surely that I don't think that any Mobile Operator will sign a contract like in the US. When I see french mobile operator and how they try to make money from everything, they will never allow something like Amazon to use their network "for free"
Maybe I'm wrong... We will see...