If the ebooks are priced at $2 more than the price quoted for US customers, they are definitely more expensive than what I pay for a mass market paperback at Amazon.de. In other words, it makes no financial sense to pay for the device, import costs, plus more per book than I do now. And all that for a selection of books which probably won’t include many of the new releases I’d want to buy!

On the third point you’ve mentioned above, I think the international model is actually new to US customers as well, the old model didn’t have 3G wireless – could be wrong though.

About book pricing, it looks as though intl customers are paying $2 more per book. And on book availability: When I go to Amazon.com and look at the Kindle store, I can tell when a book is available to me (country/region is set to the UK – upper left corner). I’ve just checked a random sample of new releases that I would want to read, and most are not available.

I’ll probably do a more coherent post when I’ve more time at the weekend, but for the moment, I’ll be sticking with my Sony Reader that doesn’t tie me into a particular retailer and supports epub.