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The Kindle is coming to Canada. You too can own a piece of the One True Cross on which the book was hung to bleed out.
Canadian book worms have waited long enough. Amazon.com Inc.’s popular digital book reader is officially available in Canada, the company announced Tuesday.
The hand-held wireless device, which Amazon.com boasts is its No. 1 bestselling product, holds up to 1,500 book titles and also lets users download newspapers, blogs and magazines.
More than 90 top newspapers and magazines are available in the Kindle Store for single purchase or subscription. Available for the first time on Kindle is the National Post. Additionally, all of Canwest’s major daily newspapers will be available on Kindle. They join top papers such as Le Monde (France), the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph (U.K.) and the Washington Post.
Canadian book worms have waited long enough. Amazon.com Inc.’s popular digital book reader is officially available in Canada, the company announced Tuesday.
The hand-held wireless device, which Amazon.com boasts is its No. 1 bestselling product, holds up to 1,500 book titles and also lets users download newspapers, blogs and magazines.
More than 90 top newspapers and magazines are available in the Kindle Store for single purchase or subscription. Available for the first time on Kindle is the National Post. Additionally, all of Canwest’s major daily newspapers will be available on Kindle. They join top papers such as Le Monde (France), the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph (U.K.) and the Washington Post.
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November 17th, 2009 at 10:27 am
“a piece of the One True Cross on which the book was hung to bleed out” — I KNOOOOOOOW. Curse that Penguin and those silly small paperbacks – they’re going to be the death of literature!
November 17th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Here we go.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Have at it, boys and girls.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:48 am
I don’t want anything from a company that can delete books on my reader after I’ve purchased them.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:26 am
You mean “without the aide of hired goons”, right Lillian?
November 17th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Will the Bookninja magazine be available?
November 17th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Is it really available now?
November 17th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Good question.
November 17th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Aptly enough, the “Ads by Google” next to this box on the page as I type is for the Sony Reader, with the tag line “Re-kindle your love for reading.” And speaking of the Sony Reader, it has been available for a while now, I have one, I like it, and it does not have the same possessive relationship to your e-books as the Kindle (and there are lots of ePub books you can get for it for free, from sites like Gutenberg).
November 17th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Lilian, you took the words right out of my mouth…Or off my keyboard as the case may be.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I’ve got a Sony reader, too, which is great for reading long novels. It’s too cumbersome to carry a big book on the subway, but I’ve been plowing through them with this device. Its main weakness is that it doesn’t connect to the net, so there’s no downloading of magazines and newspapers. As a result, though, unlike most portable e-things, this reader doesn’t lend itself to distractions. In fact, it’s the only electronic thing I’ve bought (aside from lamps) that actually helps to build the attention span.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I’m holding out for the CaNook.
Perspective on the Amazon book-erasing thing, please. They didn’t have the right to distribute that book in the first place. As much as the the erasure was crappy communications and customer service, it was also respecting copyright. If someone sells you stolen goods, you don’t actually have the right to keep them — whether you knew they were stolen or not.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Good point Strunk. Bookninja is always an interesting place. All these writers and people focus on Amazon taking back the book rather than the fact they didn’t have the right to distribute it in the first place.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Hmmm, I just went back to the Doctorow thread where McFetridge made the same point about Amazon. I wonder if we look alike as well.
I am currently struggling with whether or not I even want to collect e-books in the same way I collect physical books. Most books I own, I will never re-read, which make my many, many bookshelves a form of heavy wallpaper. Physical books actuallyt make for nice home decor. What the hell can I do with old e-books? In the end, they just make my computer sluggish, I put them on a CD, which ends up in a box in the basement.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
You can’t re-sell an e-book. Can’t loan an e-book to a friend? Can’t get an author autographed copy.
November 17th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I am currently struggling with whether or not I even want to collect e-books in the same way I collect physical books. Most books I own, I will never re-read, which make my many, many bookshelves a form of heavy wallpaper. Physical books actuallyt make for nice home decor. What the hell can I do with old e-books?
Try replacing ebook with mass-market paperback, because really this is the market the ebook is aimed at. Hardcovers and trades are (normally) wonderful things, and I don’t see them going anywhere for quite some time. Mass-market paperbacks, however, are an utter blight, and I can’t wait for them to be replaced by ebooks of one variety or another.
November 18th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
“CanucKindle”
Good neologism; but why stop at a hybridized form? Why not a wholly made-in-Canada e-reader? Too shocking, p’haps?