Thread: Sony Reader and ebook websites launched in Belgium in October
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Old 08-12-2009, 06:07 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Mycropht View Post
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I have read some comments that the European e-book readers market potential is not as big compared to the US. Is that really so? Maybe if the offer would be the same and prices comparable then we could judge the size of the market.
I don't know if the potential is not as big, but I'm sure it will take much longer time. With the many different languages, it's (generally) smaller publishers and many more of them. All of them will have to to learn how to sell ebooks. Plus, right now the situation is that the devices are still expensive and in most languages there's not a lot of content, if any, yet, so very little incentive for buying an ebook reader, which might keep the price up for a good while yet.... I'm certain it will take years.
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