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Originally Posted by krischik
And this too will be a problem for Amazon when they come to Europe. Customers are used to finding Sony readers in almost every Bookstore - Online or stone and mortar....
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Sony readers are available in many stores in the US -- even on Amazon's site by the way
. The Kindle is only available online through Amazon's own store, and has put Sony in second place, desperate to catch up, in less than 2 years.
I know that common sense says that "no in-store presence" ought to hurt the Kindle, but the evidence clearly shows this is not the case. I don't know
why it's worked out that way, but it just doesn't seem to matter.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Outside the US, ePub is the format of choice. So I cannot really see the Kindle line making inroads outside the USA....
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I'm with dmaul1114, I don't think it matters. The big draw for the Kindle is that you don't have to think about it -- just go to Amazon, one-click buy the book, and *poof* it's on your Kindle / iPhone. Very appealing and easy to use for someone who isn't technically inclined -- and barely cares about, let alone performs a detailed analysis of the pros and cons of, various formats.
Or, if we look to recent history: Apple took a lot of grief over its refusal to open up Fairplay and thus limiting access to the iPod. AAC saw little (if any) use in portable devices prior to the iPod; MP3 and, to a lesser extent, WMV were dominant. Yet the iPod still slaughtered the competition despite using an almost unknown format....