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Originally Posted by Phogg
Epic cause and effect comprehension fail.
The very thread title inserted ignorant (and unsupportable) biases into the conversation. Not those responding to the attack.
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I don't agree with you at all. yes the original poster may have judged too quickly and the title of the post could have been set better rather than state Anti-Muslim bias etc. but in all fairness he did make a point that none of the major muslim countries except Bosnia and Albania (within Europe) have kindle launched.
and as to ahi's response to the poster, have a close look at his comments and you will see that he does have a point.
-they hate Americans, they attacked America etc...
muslims do not equal terrorists.
and then further on comments about "he knows what he is" etc.
now about the topic, have a look at it yourself and decide whether there is some common element in it.
here's something I got from the net. now kindle is available in more that 100 countries. However,
Kindle is currently not available in the following countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso,
Canada, Chad,
China,
Cuba, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq,
Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan,
Democratic People’s Republic Of Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco,
New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone,
Singapore, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan,
Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Yemen.
Apart from the countries in bold all the rest are countries with Major muslim populations. Now there are some exceptions like Canada, New Zealand, Korea, Singapore and Thailand. for whatever reasons they were not included. but nothing common within this group that can be pointed out.
As for China and Cuba we may be able to come up with some reasons like censorship or in Cubas case trade restrictions ( I believe it is still implemented by US government but not sure if that has changed in the last few years. )
And if you look at all the rest of the countries they all have one common point- being a muslim majority country.
Now as to suggestions that it may be due to technical reasons - it just simply does not stand where UAE, Turkey, SA, Malaysia have more than better coverage than some other countries like Mongolia, Armenia, Georgia, Central African countries etc.
As for Kindle doesnt have the capability to launch in all countries at once - well it is pretty weird that they decided for the time being not to launch in mostly muslim countries.
As for publishing rights, I doubt that muslim countries have such a different legal policy to the rest of the world. meaning that if Amazon is able to bridge and make it work in such disparate countries as Myanmar, Tanzania, Bhutan, France etc. I am sure they could have could have done it with some of those countries. unless all muslim countries publishing rights are so very different from the rest of the world.
Now, I do not propose that Amazon is doing it because they are biased or don't want to operate in those countries. Just that they may have censorship problems or other issues that they would prefer to wait and formulate policies before entering these markets.
I also do not blame Amazon as the responsible party, as it just doesn't make sense for a corporation to willingly pass on a huge opportunity to make profit. More likely it is the condition or the government policy of those countries that made them to take such action. and I do believe Amazon will eventually launch in those countries as they sort these issues out.
But at this time, there seems to be a common element of most of those countries being muslim. and I do believe that makes more sense than the idea somehow they just could not launch in those countries due to publishing rights or infrastructure etc. while they can in many other countries.