No free Kindle books in Canada?

ficbot · 01-07-2010, 07:33 PM

I have been strongly considering buying a Kindle---I am waiting for the Apple announcement just to see, but I really want the on-board dictionary and text to speech and nothing at CES is jumping out at me. I saw the slew of new year freebies at the Kindle store and thought I would download some just to see, and then if I did buy a Kindle, they would show up on the Kindle when I got it.

So I downloaded the ipod app and plugged in a few of the titles. They all cost $2. I went to the Amazon website and they said $0 but when I clicked on details, it said $2. I have heard the $9.99 best-sellers are all $11.99 in Canada, so I guess everything just costs $2 more in Canada. And that means no free books!

The same books seem to be available in the Sony store for $2 and then I could liberate them, convert them in Calibre and read them on the Kindle that way. If I have to pay $2 anyway, I may as well have an open format, right?

I do already own a lot of content which would be easily convertable to Kindle and did not anticipate buying much (if anything) from the Amazon store. My main motivation is the read to me feature, which will work with all my books because they are all either liberated books from other sources, or free books from here. I have pretty much been wasting my half-hour commute and half-hour gym time on the same music I have had on my MP3 player for a decade (I am not a huge music listener) and this is an hour a day I could be making progress in my reading with if I had a Kindle.

But I am wondering if there are no free books at all for non-Americans, what incentive there would be to use the Amazon store at all and if I may be paying too much of a premium for the Amazon brand given that I won't have any incentive to buy from their store.

daffy4u · 01-07-2010, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by ficbot

The same books seem to be available in the Sony store for $2 and then I could liberate them, convert them in Calibre and read them on the Kindle that way. If I have to pay $2 anyway, I may as well have an open format, right?

Six of one, half dozen of the other. They're equally liberate-able (unless it's Topaz) and convertible.

HansTWN · 01-07-2010, 08:33 PM

You can still become an American (at Amazon's Kindle store, at least) with the usual tricks and get the freebies for free.

01-07-2010, 07:33 PM	#1
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	No free Kindle books in Canada? I have been strongly considering buying a Kindle---I am waiting for the Apple announcement just to see, but I really want the on-board dictionary and text to speech and nothing at CES is jumping out at me. I saw the slew of new year freebies at the Kindle store and thought I would download some just to see, and then if I did buy a Kindle, they would show up on the Kindle when I got it. So I downloaded the ipod app and plugged in a few of the titles. They all cost $2. I went to the Amazon website and they said $0 but when I clicked on details, it said $2. I have heard the $9.99 best-sellers are all $11.99 in Canada, so I guess everything just costs $2 more in Canada. And that means no free books! The same books seem to be available in the Sony store for $2 and then I could liberate them, convert them in Calibre and read them on the Kindle that way. If I have to pay $2 anyway, I may as well have an open format, right? I do already own a lot of content which would be easily convertable to Kindle and did not anticipate buying much (if anything) from the Amazon store. My main motivation is the read to me feature, which will work with all my books because they are all either liberated books from other sources, or free books from here. I have pretty much been wasting my half-hour commute and half-hour gym time on the same music I have had on my MP3 player for a decade (I am not a huge music listener) and this is an hour a day I could be making progress in my reading with if I had a Kindle. But I am wondering if there are no free books at all for non-Americans, what incentive there would be to use the Amazon store at all and if I may be paying too much of a premium for the Amazon brand given that I won't have any incentive to buy from their store.

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01-07-2010, 08:33 PM	#3
HansTWN Wizard Posts: 4,538 Karma: 264065402 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Taiwan Device: HP Touchpad, Sony Duo 13, Lumia 920, Kobo Aura HD	You can still become an American (at Amazon's Kindle store, at least) with the usual tricks and get the freebies for free.

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