Where to buy a Kindle in Canada?
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
The Kindle 3 and Kindle DX are now available in Canada
The Canada Kindle is an electronic book reader (EBook) or portable device that can store and read digital books. Created by virtual store Amazon, it was released commercially in late 2007.
There are currently four devices:
* Kindle 1
* Kindle 2 U.S.
* Kindle 3 International (available in Canada) New 2010 model
* Kindle DX (available in Canada) New 2010 model
Kindle has an electronic e ink display of 800×600 pixels and 8 grayscale levels. The device connects wirelessly to an Amazon owned network calle Whispernet running through the wireless network (Sprint in the U.S., 3G networks and EDGE / GPRS in the world) to download content.
From October 19th of 2009 Amazon began shipping Kindle 2 international ereader to users outside the United States, including of course Canada. These users may use the Wispernet network anywhere in the world where mobile coverage is available.
The price of the Kindle 3 is $189.00 UDS for the U.S. version and international version. Each ebook title costs approximately $ 10 U.S. dollars and covers wireless transmission.
The Kindle 3 supports PDF natively; in addition Amazon provides a conversion service via e-mail to use documents in doc, txt and html formats. The process involves sending the document by e-mail to Amazon, who then then makes a kindle-friendly version and sends them through the mobile network to the Kindle ereader.
The Kindle reader allows free access to Wikipedia from the user’s country of residence.
So, where do you buy a Kindle in Canada? You can’t get it a a store, you can’t purchase it at the Amazon site in Canada, you need to go to the main Amazon store to buy it. Covers and accessories are available in the Canadian Amazon site however. And although it is available in Best Buy stores in the US, there is no Best Buy Canada Kindle available; Best Buy Canada doesn’t carry the Kindle line, so click on the following links to go to the oficial Kindle page at Amazon
