What did Canadian Indie Authors do to get shut out of Nook Press and Barnes and Noble?

If you are a Canadian independent author or a reader of Canadian independent authors you’ll be shocked to know that no Canadian can get onto the new NookPress website to download their books. This site is the new Barnes and Nobel one, and is their attempt to of course shut out Kindle.

At present the website is available to authors from the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, The Netherlands and Belgium.

I was told when I asked when would Canada be included, “To please check back with www.nookpress.com regularly for updates.” They decline, when asked to provide any kind of time line, as in maybe spring of 2015, or even the fall.

What amazes me, is of all the countries that would be first in their sites, besides their own of the US and the UK, which has avid writers, you would think that Canada might be a no brainer!

We are the largest  English speaking country in the America’s outside of  the United States and Belize, and although we do have a large French population and a population of NewFoundlanders who sometimes need subtitles to understand them after a few rum and coke, you would think we would qualify as an area of key contributors.

I wonder if we’ve done something as Canadians to make NookPress and Barnes and Noble mad? I can only think it might be Justin Bieber. I think this because when in California recently I was asked by a California, “How can you Canadians be so nice and let Justin Bieber out of your country?”

Yes, he is embarrassing, and I replied, “I’m sorry for Justin, but our RCMP are hard at work hunting down really bad guys, and we can’t stop people from leaving the country who are about to do silly things.”

I gave him my heartfelt apologies. An dear NookPress, if it is Justin, on behalf of all Canadians, I apologize. But please do what we do when Snooky from Jersey Shores appears on the television. We turn it to hockey.

So, here we Canadian independent authors are with multiple titles ready to download, and locked out by NookPress. Yes, you can find us on Kindle, and Smashwords, and CreateSpace and even Apple books.  All of these have room for Canadians, and as a matter of fact just about every other author around the world.

But NookPress, no, just the US, the UK and a few other fortunate countries are able to have their books there. Why? Well, I cannot get an answer. I’ve asked twice, and keep getting told to check back later. You know like…are we there yet? Are we there yet?

If you as an author or a reader and have read this blog and would like to find out from the good people at NookPress when they might let Canadian Authors into their site I implore you to go to www.nookpress.com and under the contact us file, just send them a note.

“Hey, when do Canadian authors get in…eh?

Also, if you happen to know more about when NookPress might let us Canadians in, or a way around this please respond on this site.

I thank all readers and writers for reading this blog.