Here’s some good news if you live in Canada and you’ve been waiting for Amazon to release their terrific Kindle e-book reader 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.

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