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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's down to the power of Amazon's advertising, I suspect. No matter how many people might like a Kindle, I really don't think that many people outside North America actually buy one. The Sony Reader, for example, is what dominates the European market, hence my comment that I don't personally believe that "Kindle compatibility" is a particular (or even minor) "issue" for the success of a world-wide device such as Apple are likely to produce, given that the overwhelming majority of the potential customers for such a device have no access to the Kindle.
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But it dominates the European market because they can't *get* the Kindle easily. How many potential European customers are simply *not buying* an ereader because it's not a Kindle or Kindle-compatible, either due to preference or ignorance? (It's a rhetorical question; I don't expect anyone knows the answer.)