Comments on: Google offers books, movies and TV shows in Brazil, Amazon counters with books and Kindle

By: Umar Farooq

Umar Farooq — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:23:00 +0000

you insignificant squirt… stfu

By: LOLAHAHA

LOLAHAHA — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:16:00 +0000

For what?most of your people shit and pee at the side of the road,bath in a lake filled with human feces and corpse.stick to Nokia store for Symbian s40. 3rd world country need no iTunes or Google Store.

By: Panino Manino

Panino Manino — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:11:00 +0000

Average price in Amazon is high, but that’s okay, we know it’s imposition of publishers and over time that average should lower.
In the case of Play Store … is ridiculous and absurd. A digital book cost more than a physical volume? In a market that highly values the print edition, with great ceticism and antipathy toward digital readers? It’s laughable, not even want to see the price of the movies, and who will want them having Netflix as cheaper (and better) alternative? Google has not hit one these days, amazing.

By: apple-sux

apple-sux — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:12:00 +0000

import tax (imposto de importação) for private persons for a good over 50 US$ (including freight!!!) by air mail is 60% on the price + freight. so the 144 US$ are cheaper than the import price.

as this tablet comes from china i think amazon is doing the import. that is why it’s cheaper. the tax should be around 20% and on top of this you got other taxes like the IPI and so on. makes it a bit cheeper for clients here.

for us brazilian clients it sucks. avarege income in brazil is so low and cities like são paulo or rio are as expencive like paris or london. but brazil is protecting it’s market against foreign products and a underrated US$/RMB/Euro. in my opinion it would be better to send this socialist goverment to hell.

greetings from são paulo, brazil

By: apple-sux

apple-sux — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:00:00 +0000

but for how long?

they flooded the market with a for free OS which is now holding the biggest share of the market, 2 or 3 major (since galaxy nexus we saw android 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2) updates a year for their own subsidized hardware (nexus 7 and nexus 4, galaxy nexus – nexus 10 is not realy subsidized) and a google play store app pre instaled on every single android smartphone/tablet around the world. and now they came to the point were they want to make money. absolutley no doubt that they will kick amazon’s a$$. in a few years google will rule this market as well.

By: Asif Iqbal

Asif Iqbal — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:54:00 +0000

I am waiting for Google to launch its music, books and movies service in India.

By: the_seba

the_seba — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:52:00 +0000

I really don’t understand the non-unified price policy of international online stores like Amazon – the Kindle costs $89 un the US but then the same Kindle is $144 in Brazil. Why not purchase it in the US online store with international shipping then? I doubt tax is adding this 50% to the mix.
The same goes for Google, their Nexus line is dirt cheap in the US, in Europe on the other hand, every device’s price tag swells by around $100 (30% more for the WiFi 16 GB Nexus 7 to be exact). 10% more than the US retail price should be enough of a difference to cover all cost of import, tax and distribution. Google and Amazon, please make this happen for Europe.

By: SR90

SR90 — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:38:00 +0000

Google is killing it this week …Keep it up … Truly Amazing …

By: Bruno Bortoli

Bruno Bortoli — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:30:00 +0000

yey! finally :-)

By: max

max — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:20:00 +0000

Sorry Google,but Amazon is the King of online books.