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Originally Posted by HarryT
To be fair, there are currently 321,283 Kindle books available for buyers in the UK, so that's certainly not an insignificant number.
The Kindle will read any DRM-free Mobipocket book. My personal interest is primarily reading out of copyright classics, of which there are many thousands available completely free (see our "Book Uploads" forums here at MR). If you like SF or Fantasy, take a look at Baen - all their books are DRM-free.
The question I always ask is not "is a specific book available for my reader" - if it's not, I can always buy it in paper form - but rather "are there sufficient books available to keep me going" and the answer to that, for me personally, is that there are more than enough eBooks which interest me to last me several lifetimes.
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Actually, I found out after I bought my Cybook that this kind of number can be rather misleading, as within these hundreds of thousands of books there are relatively few that will interest me personally, while many books I would like to buy are not available as e-books, or are available in stores or formats that are closed to me.
There are still relatively few e-books available compared to all the paper books you can buy, and this will be a problem whatever device or format you choose, at least in the short term. But I do think Amazon's policy is especially restrictive, as they are apparently trying to both prevent Kindle owners buying books elsewhere, and non-Kindle owners buying at Amazon.