The Democratic Republic of Congo is getting the Kindle but not Canada, what the fuck!?

Maybe the people in Canada have intellectual property freedoms to a greater degree than in the Congo. What could be worse for Amazon and the publishers than customers that expect to have rights?

I wish I lived in a country with no Kindles.

Just a tought: perhaps Canada has laws that prevent remote deletion of books. That could be a showstopper for the Kindle as it is now.

Anyone knows about the availability of Sony's Daily?

There is another article on this, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/why-you-cant-... , also linked at HN, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868723 . It's speculation, similar to what I wrote here earlier, still no real news.

Just speculating but: Rogers. They own the GSM networks here and they are utterly awful. Worse than AT&T.

Bell/Telus are launching a GSM network soon (in November). Maybe (hopefully?) the Kindle will launch on their network.

My Rogers connections are fine. They fast, but expensive. I bet Rogers has something to do with Amazon not coming to Canada sooner.

I don't know, but something I read a few months ago (can't remember where) and one of the comments on the linked article suggested that it is because of the way cell phone fees are structured in Canada; Amazon can't afford to download books without charging extra, and isn't interested in the hassle of changing its system for a minor market. I have no idea if this is true, but it fits what little I know.

It's not coming to New Zealand either. You have to wonder why they are excluding a substantial portion of the english speaking world.

Not coming to Turkey either. Being in a third world country sucks hard in every count.