If you live in Zimbabwe, Myanmar or the Falkland Islands, rejoice – you can now buy Amazon’s white-hot electronic book-reader, the Kindle.
Canada, however, is still off-limits.
Amazon.com Inc. announced Wednesday it will begin selling the Kindle – which the company describes as the best-selling product among the millions it sells – in about 100 countries around the world.
But customers in Canada are still unable to order the device, possibly because of a delay in an agreement being reached with carriers over the Kindle’s use of wireless technology to download content.
Oh so now they care about us customers not in the US?
About time. Makes you wonder if it’s because Apple is likely to release their tablet in the next few months.
The lack of their interest in non US customers to this point has certainly worked against them now they want our custom.
Canadian Telcos
From my read of the article Amazon wanted to have a Kindle in Canada from the get go but the Canadian Telcos would not come to a reasonable price for access to their network.