I think in general they’re not so we’ll established in the countries where they never bothered to build a true national store. If I’m not mistaken their national stores in Europe, still from the time they were known for selling books, were France, UK, Germany and Italy. Spain came later and I think it’s also a bit less dominant there.

I shopped with them years ago for my running watch. Never again, been boycotting it for years and it’s really not that hard. There are alternatives, including physical shops.

For e-books I became a client of Kobo and one of the things I like about it is that you don’t have to just buy them from Kobo. I’ve been actively buying ebooks directly from publishers and manually transferring to the e-reader. It’s worth the effort to prevent new monopolies. Shop with the small guy whenever the price difference is small or the quality difference is worth it.