On: Amazon Kindle now available outside US, plus price drop

Sadly, Canada isn't included.. again. List of countries/coverage/etc here:

http://blogkindle.com/2009/10/international-release-of-kindl...

Guatemala, Iceland, Kenya, Mongolia: Check.

Canada: ack pfft.

Canada: nak

But they say they'll have it soon. I wonder what the hold up is there.

I'm going to guess it's our awful wireless operators, who charge higher data rates than any other place I know of in the world (a few years ago it was 3 to 10 times as much as the second most expensive location).

Could this also be about distribution rights/licences?

Or having to have x% Canadian authors of which y% has to be in French ?