The store features more than 400,000 titles (compared to the U.S.'s roughly 650,000), including 80 of the 100 titles on the Nielsen UK bestseller list and the novels of Stieg Larsson, who has already sold more than 1 million electronic copies of his work in the U.S. Kindle Store posthumously.
Contemporary classics which were previously available exclusively in the U.S. Kindle Store, like Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, have also been made available.
Previously, UK consumers had to purchase e-books in dollars and have their Kindle devices shipped from the U.S. Now, customers can purchase e-books in pounds, most of which range from
about £3 to £11, and have the Kindle 3 (priced at £109 for the Wi-Fi-only model and £149 for the 3G model, respectively) shipped locally beginning August 27.
In addition, UK shoppers can now read e-book reviews from fellow countrymen, and see which e-books are selling best locally, rather than across the Atlantic.
UK residents: Are you pleased that Amazon has opened a UK-specific Kindle Store? How does this change the shopping experience for you? Are you now more likely to purchase an e-reader device and e-books from Amazon?