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RUMOR: Kindle coming to the UK next week
I'm going to take the following with a grain of salt. The BookSeller is a good blog, but they've been wrong several times before about supposed Kindle launches.
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The rumor is bound to come true sooner or later.
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The Kindle is going to get wiped out by Sony if they don't make it a global platform.
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I'd really like this to be true, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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That would be wonderful (since I happen to be travelling in England in October) but I doubt it....
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It would be great if UK customers got access to the US kindle store (both price & offering wise). Yet I doubt it will be the case, and in that case Amazon UK offering would not be as interesting.
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That would be the only reason to even think about buying a Kindle. The ability to get a better offering. If they only offer the ugliest reader on the market, and not the selection of books, it's absolutely not worth the trouble over any of the other readers around. Especially as most books stores in Europe are going towards epub, which the Kindle can't read.
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It will be interesting to see how many titles the Kindle starts out with in the UK. It will be less than in the US, but how many less? Note that the standard DTP contract grants Amazon non-exclusive world-wide rights, and not all ebooks at Fictionwise or Books on Board are restricted in the UK (and can therefore be sold on the UK Kindle just as on the US Kindle). I think it is quite likely that Amazon will start out with a huge lead in titles in the UK, and in part this will be because it does not require ePub. There are legacy titles created before ePub existed and even some recent titles that are MOBI/AZW only. |
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Maybe it's because Sony & Amazon don't have much that needs fixing. Better QA out of the box.
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Amazon's policy so far means that small independent non-US publishers like my own wee house had their ebooks (but not paperbacks) removed from all Amazon sites when the Kindle was released, because we don't have registered offices in the United States. If and when the Kindle spreads its wings and enters the rest of the world, it'll be interesting to see what new restrictions and shady deals Amazon will come up with. The company's greed is breathtakingly impressive in the brazenness of its ingenuity, scope and scale. N
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