eWeek: Kindle & Nook To Dominate

[Nathanael]

Originally Posted by Geppetto

The consequence of the fact that Kindle lacks non-english ebooks is that ereaders are an irrelevant phenomenon in non-english readers countries.

Sorry, I don't follow this. Are you saying that because Amazon only sells English-language ebooks, therefore nobody outside the US reads?

I just picked up a new reader a month ago. I had some thirty or forty models to choose from. Sony had six, Hanvon five, Amazon, umm -- wait, let me count -- oh, right. Zero.

Obviously, I don't live in the US.

--Nathanael

[EowynCarter]

Originally Posted by GinoXB

True EowynCarter. I guess I was speaking more in general of the U.S. Kindle has the most name recognition here. There will always be a market for third party ereaders here, but I think the top 3 will be Kindle, Sony and Nook in the U.S. sorry I didn't clarify.

Sony, yeah. Amazon, they seams to be moving the right way. The nook ? Barnes and Noble don't seams to have plans to go outside US.

Nathanael

[ProfCrash]

Originally Posted by EowynCarter

Sony, yeah. Amazon, they seams to be moving the right way. The nook ? Barnes and Noble don't seams to have plans to go outside US.

Nathanael

It took Amazon two years to get the Kindle outside of the US. I am sure that we will see an international Nook in the next year, more likely less then that.

I know that when I was in New Zealand all of the security folks were able to recognize my K1. I actually talked with the Security Guard who was hand checking my bags (all people travelling to the US at that time went through secondary screening that included a hand search of all bags and wanding every passenger). He mentioned seeing many Kindles come through and how he was seeing a real increase in them. I asked if he meant e-readers all together or just Kindles and he said Kindles specifically.

New Zealand is one of the countries that Kindles are not sold in but the security guy could ID a Kindle and was very clear that he saw mainly Kindle's coming through security.

As the international Kindle spreads, I think you can count on an increase in the number of Kindle books that are available to non-English speakers. It will take a year or two but it will happen.

I would not be surprised to find that the Kindle quickly moves to the head of the line as an e-reader over seas.