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UK buyers snap up Kindle
UK Buyers are bidding for the Amazon Kindle on eBay, in the hope of shipping them to the UK, reports the Times, such is the device's success in the US.
Although the US versions will not be fully operational in Britain, the Kindle is rapidly taking on the must-have aura of Apple’s iPod, reports the newspaper.
It adds: "The Kindle, which is expected to go on sale in the UK later this year, has surprised US publishers and authors by how rapidly it has moved into the mainstream. Pat Schroeder, president of the Association of American Publishers, said: 'I think people initially thought it would attract young people. But old people like it, too.'"
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