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September 30, 2011 05:27 am GMT

Why No Kindle Touch Or Fire For EU, UK?

KW-slate-02-lg._V166950133_Jeff Bezos recently said that these days, "if you are just building a device you are unlikely to succeed." He certainly seems to be backing that statement up, with the launch of the Kindle Fire producing more optimism than the last ten non-iPad tablet launches combined. It seems that people do indeed like the idea of a purpose-built device that does a few things well, walled garden or not.But Bezos glossed over the other side of the "make your own ecosystem" coin: providing and administrating that ecosystem not only requires immense resources, but can occasionally cause major roadblocks. In this case it appears that the Kindle Fire and Touch will be unavailable UK or EU, for reasons and duration not specified. It wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that they're more than just devices, would it?

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