This weekend it became known that the US-based Amazon has finally begun selling its Kindle tablet in China. On Friday, the Chinese market model did Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite. The price of the first of the reader is 1499 yuan, which is about $ 242. The second is a little cheaper – from 849 yuan, about $ 137.
Thus representatives Amazon announced that the company is prepared for release in the Chinese market and is fully localize their products. In addition, in May of this year, Amazon has updated catalog of mobile applications, including in them the support of the Chinese language, and last December was the service launched Kindle e-books in that language.
Recall that, despite the confident march across the Middle Kingdom , Amazon is facing obstacles in the Chinese market, including the regulations of the General Administration of Press and Publication – Organization for the state of censorship in China.
Amazon does not have a license to publish e-books around internal electronic publisher ChineseAll.com. In response, in December last year, the General Administration of Press and Publication has launched an investigation, saying that the launch of the free download is a violation of the law.
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