The downside there, he says, is that «
no German local bookseller will order a book from Amazon,» meaning, he says, that he's selling about one print copy for every 10 ebook copies at the moment.
The success of Audible is inuring the ire of the
German Booksellers Association who just filed a petition to the European Commission whose primary grief was that Amazon is stiffing
local companies from entering the market.