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.ca kindle store
Prior to December Canadian Kindle owners bought their ebooks at amazon.com in US funds, making sure to choose country designation "Canada." The "Canadian" US dollar price was always higher than the "American" US dollar price.
Now, as of Dec 7, Canadians can buy ebooks at amazon.ca in CAN funds and the Canadian price at .ca is CHEAPER than the "Canadian" price at .com. But, in order to buy at .ca you must transfer your account from the .com kindle store to the .ca kindle store. When you do this, you will not be able to buy ebooks with your account from the .com store and you will lose access to all subscriptions and periodicals, no access to music or cloud player, no access to video, possible limited or no game subscriptions.
If you do not switch your account from .com to .ca and you shop at the storefront using your kindle device, you will pay the higher "Canadian" non-.ca price and not even know it.
Example: The Racketeer by John Grisham
amazon.com - country USA - $12.99 USD
amazon.com - country CAN - $16.32 USD
amazon.ca - country CAN - $13.99 CAD
the Canadian dollar is worth slightly more than US dollar but close enough to call it par for comparison purposes.
Seems, like Amazon is forcing customers to sacrifice content or pay like a sucker. Not a good way to build customer satisfaction.
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