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SEATTLE / MUNICH – The online retailer Amazon.com will offer its “Kindle” reader for electronic books take place outside the United States. “Kindle can now be bought over 100 countries around the world in Germany and in,” said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Wednesday Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The e-book Offer from Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN – News) currently includes only English-language titles. “Our vision is to be able to deliver some point every book in every language,” said Bezos.

BOOK IN LESS THAN A MINUTE OF DOWNLOADABLE UMTS

“We have read millions of customers around the world, the English-language books,” said Bezos. With the Kindle could be a book in less than a minute on a 3G mobile network (UMTS) to download. The international “Amazon Whispernet” is operated by the U.S. telecoms group AT & T <T.NYS>. The phone giant will tick away in their respective countries at the local roaming partner. The fees for the use of the network are also included in Germany in the e-book prices. “Our customers have no wireless roaming charges need not search for Hotspot and must complete a contract,” said an Amazon spokeswoman in Munich.

At Amazon.com, the cost of digital books publishers like Bloomsbury, Canongate, Hachette, HarperCollins, Lonely Planet, Penguin, Profile Books, Quercus, Simon & Schuster and John Wiley in some cases significantly less than printed hardcover editions. Thus, the titles on the bestseller lists in the New York Times (NYSE: NYT – News) can be had for $ 9.99, while the hardcover is usually $ 20 or more.

TOPIC most important of UF FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR

At the Book Fair in Frankfurt, the entry of ships in international e-book market and the licensing of titles in the German language should be an important issue. Although e-books even play in the U.S. book sales in a subordinate role. However, selling the best-seller “The Lost Icon” (The lost symbol) by Dan Brown at Amazon.com as an e-book better than the almost twice as expensive hardcover version. “For books that we will distribute on paper and digital, with an average of two books printed an e-book,” said Bezos.

According to media reports, Amazon.com plans to sell this year, a total of 800 000 readers. Bezos on Wednesday called on demand, not sales figures. Amazon is competing in Germany in manageable e-book) market, especially with Sony (Munich: 853,687 – News. The Sony “Reader” will be distributed through the branches of the Thalia bookstore chain in cooperation with the book trade wholesaler Libri.