Thread: Sony, kindle or kobo?
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Old 12-17-2011, 08:18 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
In Canada, Penguin does not sell eBooks at Amazon. So, Kindle users in Canada cannot buy Penguin's eBooks in AZW. They have to buy from a place like Kobo, strip the DRM and convert. This is a lot of popular authors not available to the Kindle in native AZW.
You had mentioned this earlier as well and I thought it sounded a little off since you can get penguin from kobo. So I searched for about 5 books from penguin.ca and found them all in the cdn kindle store.

Mind you the books I looked for (from penguin.ca) were listed on Amazon with a different 'Publisher', but were 'Sold By' Penguin Publishing. I am honestly not sure how that works.

Regardless, as I stated before, since it is so easy to buy from the US Kindle store in Canada, I'd argue if one is basing an ebook reader purchase strictly on available books in Canada for said ereader, kindle is the way to go.
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