According to a German weekly publication, Wirtschaftswoche, the Amazon Kindle 2 or DX won’t be available any time soon.

Why not?

Well apparently Amazon wasn’t able to agree on terms with the two Germany wireless companies, T-Mobile and Vodafone.  Amazon wasn’t willing to pay for Whispernet what the two companies were asking.

Another reason (not official though) is reportedly that publishers in Germany are refusing to lower ebook prices, and that the government has fixed prices by law.  Ouch.  So Germans won’t be seeing any $0.99 or even free ebooks like Americans have had the pleasure of.

On a more positive note, Amazon is continuing negotiations with other European countries so hopefully they’ll have better luck elsewhere.  This situation with Germany does hurt though, as they’re one of the top 5 markets in the world technology-wise, and even bigger than the UK.