http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/12/googles-e-book-deal-could-slow-rise-of-amazon-kindle-in-europe/ The economics of digital content Mon, 20 May 2013 23:21:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/12/googles-e-book-deal-could-slow-rise-of-amazon-kindle-in-europe/#comment-103985 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:12:59 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=211291#comment-103985 I may not understand all the details of the case, but my understanding is that Google was digitizing out-of-print books in France, the same as they were doing in the U.S. The inability to sell titles that publishers decided weren’t worth keeping in print isn’t likely to be a big obstacle for Amazon. In addition, as you pointed out, France has one of the lowest rates of eBook usage and sale of any first-world country. So, the impact of this deal on Amazon, or any of Google’s competitors, is likely to be extremely small.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/12/googles-e-book-deal-could-slow-rise-of-amazon-kindle-in-europe/#comment-103391 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:29:38 +0000 http://paidcontent.org/?p=211291#comment-103391 I am a kindle user myself but I not unhappy to see Amazon under some some competitive pressure in the ebook market place. I would hate to live in a future world where there was only one bookseller.

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