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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Mind the last sentence 
There is an easy way to check, to to the amazon website, create an account and say you live in japan. And you should see what's available. I checked availability in France, but that was just after the opening. Things might have improved since then.
Trouble with amazon, is that you can only buy books from amazon, no mater how large their selection is. |
Sorry, I left out some info from the popup, and maybe that made my quote a bit less clear; at the beginning of the info it says:
"We are excited to now ship Kindle to Japan. Customers in Japan will enjoy: "
What I think that last sentence means there are over 410,000 books available for Japan, and that there are more books available for USA. If I change the country to UK instead, it says:
We are excited to now ship Kindle to United Kingdom. Customers in United Kingdom will enjoy:
Growing Selection: Over 390,000 English-language books to choose from; plus U.S. and international newspapers and magazines are available for your country. Because publishers give us eBook rights on a country by country basis, available titles for your country will vary from our current U.S selection.
I just checked the Kindle store with my amazon account (Japanese address), and I get 148,439 books for the fiction section. I logged out of my account, and I still have the same amount. This is probably not correct :-/
In any case, this is not an important point. I'll have the same amount of Amazon books available for me independently of whatever eReader I choose to buy, and if I get anything other than Kindle I'll have to buy the books for Kindle for PC.
I'm pretty sure I can still read NON-DRMd books with the Kindle, regardless of origin. Can anyone confirm this?
Thanks!