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Originally Posted by wallcraft
As you say, it isn't the lack of network access that is preventing Amazon from selling in Canada. It is probably the lack of ebook rights. For Amazon to sell to Canada they would have to mark each Kindle ebook US-only or US+Canada. Canadians with Kindles would then be in the same bind as Sony PRS owners, they can see ebooks they want to buy buy in the store but they can't do so because they are US-only. Amazon may actually be in a better position to sell in Canada once they have UK Kindles, because then some US and some UK ebooks would be "legal" in Canada. However, I don't know if the Canadian market is large enough for the hassle involved in selling ebooks there for a company the size of Amazon.
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Actually the Canadian market probably is large enough - Canadians buy significantly more books on a per-Capita basis than Americans. (When I managed a bookstore in Victoria I saw numbers that said the Canadian book market was 20-25% of the US market on 10% of the population).
They also already have Amazon.ca set up so they wouldn't need a complicated flagging system - just run a Canadian Kindle store and limit access to people with Canadian cards on file and only put books they can sell in Canada in the Cindle store.