In India Amazon makes little sense. Neither does kindle nor does local book store.

The reason for this is that both paper and printing here is cheap along with labor. The original author also licenses for cheap. The publishing houses however take a large cut increasing the cost of the book.

People get a hold of the epub and print them and sell them for 1/4th of the price sometimes 1/10th for new and even less for used.

The only way I see around this is digital libraries. Let people rent unlimited books (but like Netflix limited at a time) and take a monthly cut.