Kindle Now Available for Canada

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External Image in a Canadian version: your wait is over. In addition to having full access to more than 300,000 titles in the Amazon store, Amazon announced that Canadian newspapers The Globe and Mail and The National Post will be available in Kindle editions, with the newspapers in the Canwest chain following soon.

Here’s the Amazon news release: Amazon Kindle and More than 300,000 Books in the Kindle Store Now Available to Customers in Canada.

(Note: if you buy a Kindle by clicking the picture or by following one of the links in this post, we get a small cut of the purchase price through Amazon’s associates program.)

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29 comments
1 ulmsey123  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:22:20am

It says "Smoke 'em if you got 'em" between chapters.

2 bosforus  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:22:58am

Every sentence of every book now ends in "eh".
/had to be said

3 Decatur Deb  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:23:30am

Converts text to colour, armour, favour, organise.

4 lawhawk  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:23:37am

re: #1 ulmsey123

I don't know what you're talking aboot, eh.

5 Buck  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:24:26am

Just to mention... National Post is Canwest's National Paper. And the founder of Canwest, Izzy Asper was a great supporter of Israel.

6 sattv4u2  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:24:37am

They have books in Canada? Who knew!

I wonder if the Kindle comes with a 64 pack of Crayolas to finish those books!
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7 Baier  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:29:25am

Now they can make mac and cheese dinner and read at the same time buddy!

8 J.S.  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:33:15am

Finally...(guess the dispute has been resolved...) I'm going to see how much they cost...

9 Racer X  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:33:31am

Kringle Fights the Power!

Youtube Video
10 McSpiff  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:37:35am

re: #5 Buck

Things aren't going so well for Canwest at the moment, so that might change in the somewhat near future.

11 Mad Al-Jaffee  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:45:11am

Will the page numbers be regular or metric?

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12 Mad Al-Jaffee  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:47:27am

re: #7 Baier

Now they can make mac and cheese kraft dinner and read at the same time buddy!

13 Gearhead  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 10:58:34am

Coo-loo-coo-coo
Coo-coo-coo-Kindllle


It's gonna be a pain to find in the snow...

14 Kragar  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 11:07:27am

But why do they only allow you to read hockey related material on it?

15 Killgore Trout  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 11:07:45am

Rush is backing away from Alex Jones a little bit. He covering his tracks on the Global warming article

The reference to Infowars in the transcript has been removed. The graphic on the right side has been altered to remove the infowars logo although the pic still links to Jone's site. Also the link to Infowars as source material at the bottom of the article has been removed and replaced with a link to News Busters.

16 vxbush  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 11:07:48am

re: #14 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

But why do they only allow you to read hockey related material on it?

The CBC got a hold of it.

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17 Mad Al-Jaffee  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 11:11:55am

If you don't feel like reading, it doubles as a hockey puck or a coaster for your bottle of Molson's!

18 Kragar  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 11:19:09am

re: #17 Mad Al-Jaffee

If you don't feel like reading, it doubles as a hockey puck or a coaster for your bottle of Molson's!

What's not to enjoy reading? They have Fur Trapper Quarterly and The Grizzled Mountaineer's Companion.

19 wrenchwench  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 11:22:57am

re: #15 Killgore Trout

Rush is backing away from Alex Jones a little bit. He covering his tracks on the Global warming article

The reference to Infowars in the transcript has been removed. The graphic on the right side has been altered to remove the infowars logo although the pic still links to Jone's site. Also the link to Infowars as source material at the bottom of the article has been removed and replaced with a link to News Busters.

Which shows once again, Rush knows there are limits to what's acceptable. He just doesn't always know where those limits are.

Isn't altering a transcript dishonest?

20 Charles Johnson  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 11:26:04am

re: #15 Killgore Trout

Rush is backing away from Alex Jones a little bit. He covering his tracks on the Global warming article

The reference to Infowars in the transcript has been removed. The graphic on the right side has been altered to remove the infowars logo although the pic still links to Jone's site. Also the link to Infowars as source material at the bottom of the article has been removed and replaced with a link to News Busters.

Wow! He altered the transcript?

21 Charles Johnson  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 11:31:55am

Oh, I see - he didn't actually alter the transcript, just removed the link to Prison Planet. He screwed up and he's hiding it before anyone else picks up on it.

22 wrenchwench  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 11:46:29am

re: #21 Charles

Oh, I see - he didn't actually alter the transcript, just removed the link to Prison Planet. He screwed up and he's hiding it before anyone else picks up on it.

In the comments at prison planet, they've copied the transcript as it was yesterday. Today it has been shortened.

Yesterday [reply #21]:

...This man is an absolute joke! He's Photoshopped a picture of the earth, and the website where this is taken place is PrisonPlanet.com. That's where we have the pictures side by side from Gore's book, Our Choice. I think the same people are doing -- (laughing) Yeah, the same people who Photoshopped the Obama jobs numbers. (laughing) Jobs created or saved. Recovery.gov, what have you.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

Today:

...This man is an absolute joke! He's Photoshopped a picture of the earth.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

I guess you can put "BREAK TRANSCRIPT" in two different places and technically it is not dishonest. [Sorry, I couldn't make the pp link a cached version :(]

23 Diane  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 1:10:17pm

re: #6 sattv4u2

Yep, books and even internet access to LGF, who would have thought, eh?

24 yenta-fada  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 2:37:50pm

You can stop making fun of Canadians now. I'll have you know I live in a two story igloo with a great view of the tundra./

25 UncleSam  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 5:54:11pm

re: #21 Charles

Are you saying Prison Planet isn't a reliable news/information site?
It's one of the finest paranoid deranged nutball sites the internet has to offer!
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26 UncleSam  Fri, Nov 20, 2009 6:02:27pm

The best part is, Canadian Kindle buyers get a free moose with every purchase!

27 NogenDavid  Sat, Nov 21, 2009 2:42:38pm

The hacking was wrong, the implications of various phrases in the revealed emails ambiguous, so I draw no conclusions from what charles calls a nontroversy.

My view remains both that the pursuit of scientific knowledge independent of political bias is what is required on the global warming debate, and that the scientific method yields truth. But some questions are downright impossible to resolve using the scientific method - e.g., issues about what happens in parts of the universe too far to be seen now or ever. On others, limitations on information, the complexity of systems and the potential large impacts of even small variations in initial conditions means there are limits to what we can know or predict. With global climate change, it is hard to assemble precise information about past events (e.g., temperature, even in recent centuries) and even some present ones, and the system is so complex - involving the Sun as well as terrestrial events - that humility is called for when building models, feeding data in them, and coming up with predications. I do not think that the case for GW, let alone AGW is by any means clinched, and skepticism in this regard is far different from the kinds of irrationalism (e.g., advocacy of intelligent design as a scientific theory) that LGF typically and rightly attacks.

You might argue that the debate over GW and AGW is different from
other cases where expert models have probably and spectacularly failed, e.g, those prediction stocking market and macroeconomic performance. The difference, arguably, is that economic models are rendered further unreliable by "animal spirits" - the inherently unpredictable fluctuations in emotion. True, to some extent, but the is emotion in both the AGW and anti-AGW camps that is likely resulting in a distortion of the data sought, compiled and used and well as formulation and operation of models.

[Link: www.salon.com...]

I don't cite this article as "proof" that GW is wrong, just as one more piece of evidence that there is much we do not and cannot know at this stage.

28 NogenDavid  Sat, Nov 21, 2009 2:43:58pm

Sorry, meant to post previous item on the nontroversy thread. My apologies.

29 deegee  Sat, Nov 21, 2009 4:06:43pm

OK Canada has one. WOT about Israel?


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