Singapore
IF you were to look down at a map of South-east Asia, as one is wont to do, you will find the region’s very own Bermuda triangle – a baffling Kindle-free zone of four countries, with Singapore in the middle.
Since the birth of the first Kindle six years ago, Amazon’s e-books and its e-reader have come to be offered for sale in every South-east Asian country but not in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia or Brunei. Even so, Amazon’s wunderkindle has a shadow presence here through the surreptitious import of the devices. Last year, local importer Ebook Reader Singapore sold 4,000 e-book readers, most of which were the Kindle.
Device in hand, Singaporeans gingerly tiptoe around the geofence that prevents e-books from being sold outside the United States, lying about their addresses and buying themselves giftcards, constantly in danger of being found out and booted out.
Singapore"s illicit love affair with the Kindle
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