International internet service is one of the issues. Another issue is because there are some export laws bounding the export of books. Amazon has settled the issue of exporting their huge quantity of ebooks, and signed contract of wireless service with different providers in different countries. That’s why it now can provide free wireless in over 100 countries…

I own the Kindle 2. If you ask me to choose again, I’ll still get the Kindle 2 instead of other ebook readers. The Kindle 2 has internet browser and text-to-speech function, that no other ebook reader has. It also provides the biggest and cheapest source of ebook content. These are all benefits of it over other ebook readers.

And I remember I read these reviews when I decided to get my Kindle:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Freview%2FR2DUM7S4XW06QN%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ASIN%3DB00154JDAI%26nodeID%3D%26ref%255F%3Dcm%255Fcr%255Fpr%255Fcmt&tag=moreinfo-po-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957

http://www.speedreaderxreview.com/is-kindle-2-worth-the-price

Hope it helps