Amazon's Kindle now available to Canadians

By on Nov 17, 2009 at 9:44 AM
Retail November 17, 2009

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Canadians that have long been jealous of their Southern neighbours ability to procure an Amazon Kindle need no longer feel hostile, for today Amazon announced it will ship the Kindle to its Canadian customers. To offer over 300,000 books and a wide assortment of international newspapers, a bunch of unique Canadian content has also been added with The Globe and Mail and The National Post having signed up to deliver their dailies to those that wish to subscribe (Canwest’s publications are said to be coming soon if they don’t get visited by the repo man first). The Kindle will set Canadians back $259 USD ($275 CDN) on Amazon’s American website.

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  • ron

    I’m taking a look at a ‘nook’.

    http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/

    $259 also.

  • Sebastian

    Too bad B&N didn’t partner with Indigo/Chapters on the Nook.. It would dominate :)

    • tom

      In Canada, it doesn’t matter. It has been dominated by Indigo anyways.

      Indigo owns World’s biggest bookstore, Chapters and Smith books. Their only competitors are small neighborhood bookstore.

  • Daley

    Looks a lot like the Rogers coverage map. though not surprising since it has EDGE fall-back.

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    Great post!

  • http://cameron-schultz.ca schultzter

    Have seen the fine print, in particular these two points:

    # Kindle books, newspapers, and magazines are currently priced and sold in United States dollars
    # Blogs and the experimental web browser are currently not available for your country.

    Who wants to deal with currency conversion, today it costs $1 – tomorrow it costs $1.10 – next day it costs $0.98!!! Sorry, not interested.

    And what do you mean blogs (presumably including RSS feeds) are not available?! WTF?! Are the newspapers & journals in bed with Amazon on this one!?

    Close, but FAIL!

    Stop treating Canada like a poor US state and give us a Kindle for Canada (and a Kindle DX too!!!).

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  • dave

    Nook looks like a big winner for BN. Their stores won’t have it, and if they do, it will only be available at their superstores (in limited quantities) and online.

  • jonathan

    The nook is nice, but the Kindle has built-in dictionary, physical keyboard and internet wikipedia search too.The kindle also has, dare say it, “an app” for the Iphone which syncs to your kindle and you could pick up where you left off in your reading,vice-versa. I like the Nook’s colored touch on the lower half which I have a feeling the next gen kindles will have too. I also wonder if the Nook has a text speech function like the Kindle. Overall, they are both good ereaders.

    • j

      I think you really need to look at the specs of the Nook because it has all the features you just mentioned. It’s superior to the Kindle in every way except for the keyboard. But considering everything else, that’s a terrible reason to choose the Kindle over the Nook.

      • jonathan

        I’ve had the Kindle 2 for a month now. Yes, the Nook is looking more superior and I would most likely order the Nook had I known about it before I got my Kindle. Still, I’m liking the Kindle and the only choice so far if you live in Asia or in Europe.

      • Bill

        The choice in Asia and Europe is thankfully a lot wider than just a kindle and in many cases is far superior to it as well.

        There’s a wide range of hardware from sony and others that all support the ePub standard and certainly in Europe the same is true of the stores too and the current halfhearted attempt at an international launch of the kindle will do little to change that fact.

  • maxpayne79

    God it looks GIANT. Unless those are some tiny asian girls hands or something. A midget maybe. Hey can I still call them that? Or is it “little people?” “Little person.” or “santas little helpers.” lol…sorry. I had like four coffees today okay so…but, I’m gonna wait for apples thing whatever that’s gonna be. A little transformer thingie. Its gonna be this thing, that thing, who knows. But its gonna be irie I give u that. Uber-tastic. Midgets included, lol.

  • earthwormjim

    We were not jealous.

  • Lorne Graburn

    As a Canadian that has had a Kindle 2 since it came out in the States, it has been very frustrating to have to download out-of-copyright books online and look at garbled formatting and not to get the books that I want except when I venture South of the Border. I am very happy to see Amazon sell to Canadians, as well as the inclusion of a “transfer from computer” option so as to bypass those pesky data surcharges!

  • jonathan

    @Bill,I was actually comparing availability of the kindle or the nook in other parts of the world and was not implying that only the kindle is available in Europe. can they download wirelessly, or do you need to be hooked to a pc. I don’t know if Sony’s reader can go wireless with download.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • tomato

    Ooooooo, we get to buy the older out of date kindle. Why aren’t they selling the newer larger screen kindle too? Forget it, if I can’t buy the same thing as anyone in the US can, I’m not buying ANYTHING from amazon. Are you listening? (Do you even care? Doubt it…)

  • jonathan

    I don’t know why the DX version which hasa larger screen not available for Europeans. Makes no sense.

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