Canada First to get Kindle TouchCanada First to get Kindle TouchCanada First to get Kindle Touch

February 16, 2012 – Unannounced and unnoticed, Amazon has listed the Kindle Touch for sale to Canada, making it the first country to be included in Kindle Touch sales outside of the U.S

The Kindle Touch is the latest generation of the now-famous ereader series and first to offer navigation through a touch sensitive screen.

Amazon doesn\’t make sales stats public but the Kindle Touch would\’ve been at the front of the pre-Christmas surge that saw Kindles flying out of the warehouse at rates exceeding 1,000,000 a week. And this regardless of the undeniable fact that Kindles are notoriously tricky to get if you do not live in the U. S..

Though Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world with commerce web sites in nine nations, distribution of the Kindle ereaders has always been restricted geographically for a range of reasons. At the end of 2011, neither the Kindle Touch nor the Kindle Fire, the two high profile introductions of that year, were able to be bought anywhere except in the U.S.

The release of the Kindle Touch to the Canadian market now gives that country access to 4 of the 6 Kindle models up for grabs, the best of any country outside the USA.

The Kindle Touch being distributed to Canada is the basic Wi-Fi version which sells for US$139. A higher-end model with free 3G connectivity isn\’t offered outside of the U.S. A Wi-Fi connection needs access to the Internet while a 3G connection works the same as a cellular telephone and is thus more ubiquitousomnipresent.

The Canadian model should benefit from a software upgrade released at the same time which, among other aspects makes page turning faster.

The Kindle Touch has a number of improvements on the prior model, the Kindle 3. All the recentKindles use the astonishing E-Ink display engineering which makes the screen sharp and clear and relaxing to read. The K3, however, makes use of a 5-way button at the footof the ereader for navigation, as compared to the touch screen in the Kindle Touch.

Author Brett Welsh helps shoppers, particularly Canadians, to get the finest deals in ereaders and capsules. For example3, you can read a comparison between the Kindle and the Kobo Touch here in \”Kindle vs Kobo\”