Hello.
I am new to WordPress, although not to blogging, so while the content I am going to start posting is all real and all mine, the site itself is a bit of a mess right now. In a couple of week, this should all be beautiful and trenchant and even useful.
Amazon Canada launched its Prime service in Canada in January. Prime has been available in the U.S. for years; for an annual fee of $79, members get three benefits: free two-day shipping, Kindle e-book loans, and access to Amazon’s large bank of streaming movies and TV shows.
In Canada, we only get the first of those benefits: free two-day shipping. No Kindle loans. No streaming movies and TV shows. And the price we pay for this truncated service? $79 a year. Canadians hoping that, by now, Amazon would have improved the offering will be disappointed.
Where’s the value? Amazon already gives us free shipping on orders of more than $25, and I rarely hit the site and spend less than that. This Christmas, I did almost all of my shopping through Amazon.ca and paid not a cent for shipping.
If Amazon adds streaming content to its Canadian Prime, I will consider buying in. Until then, Prime is simply not worth $79.
And I’ll go one step further: there are a lot of reasons to like Amazon.ca and I am a regular customer, but I dislike the company’s approach to Canada. Americans can buy many Kindle models; Canadians only recently got more than the stock Kindle offered to us. Americans get a triple pack of services in Prime; Canadians get one.
You have to ask: does Amazon value the Canadian market? 
Peter Wolchak 