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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
'sigh.
They don't sell "everywhere else in the word"
They aren't "refusing to sell in Canada"
They have to work out the different copyright restrictions, not to mention getting the wireless worked out.
The money to be made is staggering. No company would 'refuse' sales like that.
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Yet somehow little old Sony with its limited library of ebooks can manage to sell books in Canada along with hardware, and so can MobiPocket and a few other electronic book retailers. And yet Amazon, with its clout and the fact it's selling Kindles WITHOUT WIRELESS ACCESS in the fucking CONGO can't somehow make Canadian publishers play ball, and somehow can't sell the Kindle without wireless access in Canada when they can do so in
SRI-bloody-LANKA. So they can sell the Kindle hardware in those countries, without the all-important wireless connection, but can't even sell the hardware in Canada. Yes, I understand they want to tie everyone to the Kindle/Amazon store for buying... but they're selling it without wireless in several parts of the world, and have negotiated deals with the British publishers whose secondary arms are usually also in Canada. One of the world's biggest seller of books can't somehow bring any leverage in?
I call bullshit on that excuse. They just don't WANT to.