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Originally Posted by erictoma
I don't think that Kindle 3 is good for someone who lives in Canada.
Kindle is the only gadget that obliges you to buy only from their own store. I'm in the same situation as you; I live in Canada.
I was astonished that all books that I am interested in are not available in Kindle for Canadian customers.
"caffeine blues" eBook for example is not available for Canadians in kindle store but available for all the world !
I think there is a huge conflict between amazon and Canada.
"caffeine blues" is available in every store on the net, but you cannot read it on your kindle ! hence the frustration lol
With Kobo you could buy your eBooks wherever you want !
Kindle store is huge bookstore but a vast number of those titles are not available for Canadian customers . I didn't find the book Apollo 13 (Jim lovel) didn't find "big bang never happened"
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The same geo restriction work arounds that work for the Nook and Sony work for the Kindle. There are plenty of books available for Canadian users through Amazon and other sources.
You are not tied to Amazon for your purchases. There are other stores that sell e-books in Mobi format for the Kindle.
Amazon does not have it out for Canadians. I am sure that Amazon would prefer to sell every book that it has in its store to anyone who wants to buy them. Geo Restrictions prevent that from happening. There have been the occassional tussel with a publishing house, like Penguin, that has made it impossible to buy some e-books from Amazon but those have been sorted out.
Amazon is not the only distributor to have problems with Publishers. I believe Random House is not available on the IBook store because it will not agree to the Agency Pricing scheme so Apple will not sell their books.