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Originally Posted by HarryT
I think that's a little unfair on Amazon. I'm sure they'd like nothing better than to be able to release the Kindle in Europe. Unfortunately, the "legal issue" of trying to arange "Whispernet" deals with the multitude of different European telecoms providers, different legal frameworks, etc, is a problem of nightmarish proportions which is taking them years to try and resolve. Not to mention trying to get the legal right to sell their books in Europe, when many books have US-only distribution rights, and so on.
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I think this is mostly a smoke & mirror BS from Amazon - it's nothing but Amazon's decision, I believe: compare Amazon DE, FR and UK prices and you got the picture why Amazon keeps spreading this...
It would take next to nothing to arrange a global EU deal with, say, T-Mobile or Vodafone, I bet (both are present as providers in all EU countries and both are worldwide, global players and you got the euro as official currency) they can maintain higher profits this way plus European DRM laws are less insane (well, sans some countries like Germany) than ours here.