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I wouldn't call it a "service", per se, but you cannot buy a Kindle from Amazon.ca. You can, however (and this is more on-topic), buy books for it, but the sele
by noarchy 16y ago
I wouldn't call it a "service", per se, but you cannot buy a Kindle from Amazon.ca. You can, however (and this is more on-topic), buy books for it, but the selection is limited.
Edit: I should add that a lot of the things that are available on Amazon.com (the US site) won't ship to Canada. You don't even get the option to pay for extra shipping charges; it just won't ship, period.
Edit 2: An article about Amazon's efforts to deal with the "cultural protection rules" here, among other things (like foreign ownership issues): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/amazon-given-green-light-to-set-up-shop-in-canada/article1532080/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/amazon-given-g...
- joelhaasnoot 16y agoThat's crazy, because the do ship the Kindle to Europe. There too aren't a lot of books available due to rights issues, but still. What's the problem with the Kindle?
- jarek 16y agoYou can buy the Kindle from Amazon.com, just not local in .ca. And yeah the book selection.
- jleyank 16y agoI just checked, and Amazon says it can (now) ship Kindle to Canada. Customs duties, etc, but they can ship. FYI.
- noarchy 16y agoMy original comment was about Amazon.ca, not Amazon.com. If you try to buy the Kindle via Amazon.ca, you get sent to a .com site. The Canadian site itself won't sell it, as it still must be imported. For whatever reason, they don't want to stock it in their Canadian warehouses. Maybe the duties on it are more than they want to swallow? I figure they'd pass that cost along, and not worry about it, but perhaps I am wrong.
- UnFleshedOne 16y agoThe ship times to canada are international too (3-4 weeks), as opposed to 1-2 days in US. And it actually does take that long (did in my case anyway).