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Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan
5) If Sony is out of US market, Sony will concentrate only in Japan, Europe, ceding other places to Kindle.
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Other places? What about the whole of Asia, Latin America, Africa? The only non English-language market of the Kindle is Germany. Even though it took them ages to open their German Kindle store they didn't even bother to offer a German interface for the Kindle. Other markets are far less forgiving about something like that than Germany.
Amazon doesn't even have a shop in many major European countries, e.g. Spain. To declare the Kindle as something of a global standard is rather premature.
Kobo and Nook are irrelevant for most of the world.
With the currency debasement of the US $ it gets increasingly unattractive to sell goods to the US for companies that don't operate in an environment that's pegged to the Dollar. It is therefore quite reasonable not to enter into any price war in the US if you can sell your products everywhere else with a much higher profit margin.