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Kindle Unlimited finally comes to Canada

technologyEdward Kiledjian

Canadians are use to being treated like second class citizens. We often watch our american neighbours get all the cool services while we live in the stone age. Maybe it's not that bad but it is pretty bad.

Now Amazon has finally opened up it's Kindle Unlimited service to all Canadians. This means for $9.99, you can read any book from its 750,000 book digital library. What kind of books so they offer? Think of title like Harry Potter, Flash Boys, etc.

All Canadians are eligible for a free 30 days trial of the service except Quebecers. No free trial for you Quebecer! Before any french speaking Quebecois get's mad at me, Kindle Unlimited will offer 15,000 french titles. 

Access Kindle Unlimited on Amazon.ca here (link)

 

Most well read cities in Canada

CanadaEdward Kiledjian
Flickr. Creative Commons image by  YLev

Flickr. Creative Commons image by  YLev

This is an older bit of news but one I think is interesting and wanted to share it. In July 2013, Amazon released its list of Most well read cities in Canada. The list comes from Amazon compilling its sales data for all Canadian cities with more than 100,000 residents and the top 20 cities are:

  1. Vancouver, British Columbia
  2. Calgary, Alberta
  3. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  4. Edmonton, Alberta
  5. Regina, Saskatchewan
  6. London, Ontario
  7. Toronto, Ontario
  8. Ottawa, Ontario
  9. Winnipeg, Manitoba
  10. Kitchener, Ontario
  11. Burnaby, British Columbia
  12. Mississauga, Ontario
  13. Gatineau, Quebec
  14. Windsor, Ontario
  15. Richmond, British Columbia
  16. Markham, Ontario
  17. Surrey, British Columbia
  18. Halifax, Nova Scotia
  19. Hamilton, Ontario
  20. Brampton, Ontario

I was surprised that my home city of Montreal isn't part of the list.