Since last February I have been writing about the Kindle in Canada. Finally today Amazon announced they would sell the Kindle to us in the great white north. Great. So what took them so long? I reached out to both Amazon PR and Rogers for some answers.
The sale of the International (Canadian) version of Amazon Kindle was announced on Nov. 17/09. See my post about that announcement. Amazon announced the sale of its international version of the Kindle this morning. Canada isn’t on the list. Why not? There are four possible reasons I can think of.
This morning brought news of Amazon’s (via A9) acquisition of yet another innovative start-up. They bought SnapTell, the service that allows users to snap a picture of a bookcover and see pricing for that item at online stores (B&N, eBay, Amazon.com) as well as information at Google and Wikipedia. Amazon’s continued land grab of promising [...]
If the Kindle is a StormTrooper then is the iPhone a Sith Lord? It doesn’t really matter. Spread the word that both Amazon’s Audible and the Amazon Kindle are closed platforms that use DRM. These are anti-consumer offerings. Bezos knows how to be open when it suits him (the Amazon Mp3 store) so demand the [...]