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Amazon releases international e-book reader…
Today is the official release date of Amazon’s latest generation electronic book reader, the International Kindle. Kindle users can now download books outside the United States, in a list of countries that spans the globe.
I went through the list of countries and clicked on some of them because I was curious to know one thing, does this mean that you can download books in the languages of the various countries where the downloads occur?
I clicked on France. Were books available there in French? Apparently not. I clicked on Lithuania. Were books downloadable in Lithuanian? Nope.
So I guess the International Kindle is really only useful to English speakers? American tourists? Residents of foreign countries who speak English? That’s not much of a market in most places? I don’t get it. Most of these countries don’t have that many English speakers, do they?
What’s the point of this device? It seems like a lot of hype about very little? What am I missing here?
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Vick Mickunas
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