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Originally Posted by Hogan
For a personal point of view, before the release of K2 International (and now the DX International), I bought 90% of my books on-line at Amazon (the rest in-store at Waterstones), and now that ratio has all but reversed. That's solely down to my annoyance at the botched International releases of the Kindle (which incidentally I was looking forward to buying). Looking around the commentaries on the web, it would seem I'm not alone.
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Kind of offtopic, but I'm in exactly the same position. For the past 10 years most of my book buying has been through Amazon, with the remainder Borders (or occasionally Smith's, at train stations). Now pretty much everything is from Waterstones and Smiths, and that is completely and utterly because of the iffy Kindle international 'experience'.
If they had UK publishers, and newspapers/magazines got images, then I would buy a Kindle. As it is, I upgraded to a prs-600 instead. If amazon even sold ePub from their US site, I'd probably revert to buying books from them, even if only due to habit.
Seems a bit of a lost opportunity.