Next Kindle Store: Germany

theBookseller.com: "Germany could become the next market outside of the United States and United Kingdom to have a dedicated Kindle store. Buchmarkt reports that publishers at the recent Homer 3.0 conference in Berlin said they were in discussions with Amazon representatives about a 2011 launch of a Kindle store. The e-book reading device has been available in Germany since late 2009. However, the overwhelming majority of the books available have been in English and Amazon.de has lacked its own Kindle store. In August, the United Kingdom became the first country outside of the US to get a dedicated e-book store, with UK pricing."

Can Augmented Reality Help Save the Print Publishing Industry?

Read Write Web: "There's a memorable scene in the movie Minority Report where a man reads a futuristic newspaper with rich embedded multimedia updating live with breaking news. While we are a long way seeing anything like this in the hands of the general public, a German newspaper has taken a small step in that direction with the release of a special augmented reality (AR) edition of its Friday magazine. ..."

Bertelsmann and Holtzbrinck Partner for German-Language E-Book Platform

Sparse details from PW's PWxyz blog:

... The platform will mostly sell the two partners’ e-books, but will also sell books from other companies.