[rfunduk]

The fact that it's not available in other countries doesn't have to do with technical limitations of the over-the-air functionality since you can just download books to your computer and copy them to the device over USB.

The problem is the same as it has been for other content distribution systems like iTunes, where the publishers/other big-brother-ish entity decide what Amazon (/Apple/whoever) can do with the content.

Amazon says to pengiun books (or whoever) "We want to put your books on the Kindle." and pengiun tells them where they can go... Eventually they start convincing people -- but start throwing 'Canada' and the like into the deal and it gets a lot harder.

In short, what I'm saying is that eventually Amazon will convince the powers-that-be that the kindle is a profitable business and they'd be stupid to continue ignoring potential sales in other countries... And that's when the rest of us will get it (wirelessly or otherwise).