Comments on: Why is the Kindle sold in Zimbabwe, East Timor but not New Zealand?

By: kindle touch nz

kindle touch nz — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:28:16 +0000

Amazon Now Official send kindle touch to New Zealand on 3 feb 2012

By: Kindle NZ

Kindle NZ — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 06:50:19 +0000

Now i found amazon available kindle to ship in new zealand in 3 form – kindle3,kindle 3g and new kindle when will kindle touch and Dx will be available?

By: tom nelson

tom nelson — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:50:53 +0000

it’s even more perverse now. You can buy a 6″ 3g kindle and ship to New Zealand, just not a DX. i’d love to know why….

By: Borders’ Fail « Lance Wiggs

Borders’ Fail « Lance Wiggs — Sun, 01 May 2011 06:22:25 +0000

[...] unusable. Go for Amazon’s Kindle, which is everything it needs to be – except for being waterproof, so use in the bath is [...]

By: mrgilbe1

mrgilbe1 — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:25:16 +0000

My completely uninformed guess is the same as you, but to do with cellphone providers.

Countries without 3G networks just don’t get any wireless coverages, so they’re easy to sell to.

Amazon’s got a big incentive to negotiate with large countries with 3G networks, so they can sell to that market.

And NZ is right in the middle – Not small enough to have no network, but not big enough for Amazon to devote much time to negotiations.

(And roaming doesn’t count – that’s a paid service that’s presumably through an agreement between the home country provider and the foreign provider, nothing to do with Amazon).

By: An open letter to Vodafone Group from New Zealand « Lance Wiggs

An open letter to Vodafone Group from New Zealand « Lance Wiggs — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:58:54 +0000

[...] New Zealand would love us to have the Kindle down here – after all we surely rank ahead of East Timor and Zimbabwe in market size and ease of doing [...]

By: Lance Wiggs

Lance Wiggs — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:37:40 +0000

As that is true. On the same notice that NZ is out of luck we get:

“Customers in New Zealand can read over 320,000 Kindle books on your PC with our free application for your Windows PC – no Kindle required. Click here to learn more.”

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:34:45 +0000

Funny, that. Especially since East Timor has no (functioning) 3G network; that rules out negotiations with carriers, doesn’t it?

Still happy to have one here, though (2G)

By: Susanne Ames

Susanne Ames — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:28:14 +0000

The Turks & Caicos are a nice set of islands SE of the Bahamas and N of Haiti

http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=21.033237,-73.685303&spn=4.633883,9.810791&z=7

By: Steve Biddle

Steve Biddle — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:25:30 +0000

Yes. Lance posted the Kindle coverage map – this is what is shown on the Kindle site when you look at the global coverage map.

Kindle’s have been able to roam here, this is a completely different issue to not being able to buy one here.