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Stephen Downes

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You know I don't really care whether or not the Kindle is available in Canada. But the delays are just more indications that, despite what we are told by the carriers, broadcasters and wireless companies operate like fiefdoms in Canada, preventing access not only to the Kindle but to all manner or content and services. "For Canadian consumers, it's yet another in a long line of annoying delays and prohibitions – from smartphones that take years to go on sale to online gift cards that are bound by mysterious legal restrictions to Internet video that won't play once it recognizes the user isn't in a particular country."

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