November 2024 marked ten years since the last international Kindle store opened.
A week ago Michalis Kalamaras published a post on LinkedIn about the Greek-language book market that including the following observation:
“The ebook market is very limited in (Greece), with the main cause being the absence of a local sales and reading platform. The cumulative production of 13,248 ebooks in Greek barely exceeds the annual print production, while only 5 publishing houses have produced half of them and a number of major publishing houses do not have ebooks. The lack of ebook titles and their unsystematic production creates a vicious circle of low supply and low demand.”
Read the full post, in Greek, here.
The TNPS Take
In a repost, TNPS had this to say:
Repeat for countless countries around the world that missed out on the Kindle revolution that transformed a handful of North American and European markets before Jeff Bezos back-tracked on his noble mission to “to have every book, ever published, in any language available for Kindle customers to purchase and begin reading in less than 60 seconds.”
Promises Unkept
That promise was dropped from the Amazon site few years back now, and November 2024 marked ten years since the last international Kindle store opened.
But ebooks remains an exciting opportunity for global publishers, if the “vicious circle of low supply and low demand” can be broken.
Tis post first appeared in the TNPS LinkedIn newsfeed
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