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Sunlite · 12-12-2010, 02:16 PM

To say that the selection of German books for the Kindle (on Amazon) is much more limited is still an understatement. At the moment there are maybe 5000 German books. Many of those are books who's copyright has run out.

I did a test with the paperback bestseller list from Spiegel. Out of 15 books none was available for the Kindle. Eleven of these 15 books are available as ebooks from German ebook stores.

There are rumors that Amazon will open a German Kindle store in 2011. When that happens, your wished use case might be possible (probably with a German credit card) . At the moment I would say, there are too many problems for it to work the way you want.

12-12-2010, 02:16 PM	#3
Sunlite Addict Posts: 206 Karma: 547516 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: KObo Clara, Kobo Aura, PRS-T1, PB602, CyBook Gen3	To say that the selection of German books for the Kindle (on Amazon) is much more limited is still an understatement. At the moment there are maybe 5000 German books. Many of those are books who's copyright has run out. I did a test with the paperback bestseller list from Spiegel. Out of 15 books none was available for the Kindle. Eleven of these 15 books are available as ebooks from German ebook stores. There are rumors that Amazon will open a German Kindle store in 2011. When that happens, your wished use case might be possible (probably with a German credit card) . At the moment I would say, there are too many problems for it to work the way you want.