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Buying Kindle Books

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  • 04-06-2011 2:02pm
    #1
    Giggler
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭


    I have a new Kindle arriving on Tuesday. I have been looking at buying books for it, and there seems to be a big difference between what you can buy depending on the country.

    I have to use amazon.com, to buy the Kindle and then my region is europe. It cant be changed to Uk or USA, and i cant buy from amazon.co.uk.

    Does anyone have a way around this, or am i just stuck with it??

    If i go into the amazon.co.uk site and look to manage my kindle, it redirects me to the amazon.com website. Can i deregister it from the .com site and register it to my .co.uk account? I have accounts for both.

    Thanks in advance

    Giggler


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    angel01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭angel01


    I added my brothers address in the UK and wirelessly delivered it to my kindle, after that I got an email from my Amazon asking me for clarification :(

    I tried using daves proxy and saving it to computer, that wouldn't work, but next time I may use davesproxy and wirelessly send it to kindle...


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    Quo Vadis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 413 ✭✭Quo Vadis


    Giggler wrote: »
    I have a new Kindle arriving on Tuesday. I have been looking at buying books for it, and there seems to be a big difference between what you can buy depending on the country.

    I have to use amazon.com, to buy the Kindle and then my region is europe. It cant be changed to Uk or USA, and i cant buy from amazon.co.uk.

    Does anyone have a way around this, or am i just stuck with it??

    If i go into the amazon.co.uk site and look to manage my kindle, it redirects me to the amazon.com website. Can i deregister it from the .com site and register it to my .co.uk account? I have accounts for both.

    Thanks in advance

    Giggler

    Why are they so restrictive ?


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    angel01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭angel01


    Quo Vadis wrote: »
    Why are they so restrictive ?

    They claim it is down to rights of the books and the UK has rights just for the UK. :(


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    Quo Vadis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 413 ✭✭Quo Vadis


    Stuff em then. Stick to the free books out of principle.


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    angel01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭angel01


    Quo Vadis wrote: »
    Stuff em then. Stick to the free books out of principle.

    To be honest, I am happy enough paying out from amazon.co.uk and so far, my purchases have gone through.. It takes a bit of tinkering around :)

    I bought 3 books so far and the most expensive one I bought was £2.99 and the others were both less than £1, no issue there! :D

    The US store is more expensive as I did a comparison on the books I bought!


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    Giggler
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭Giggler


    How do you manage to buy the books from the uk site. My Kindle is registered to the .com site?


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    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 17,993 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    I started a thread on it here, with some posters giving advice on the matter.

    It's due to licensing restrictions, which don't apply when selling books. From what I can gleam, it's okay to sell books to different regions. However, a book is published to a Kindle (not sold) and the publishing restrictions kick in.
    Frankly, I don't care and they need to sort this nonsense out. They're just going to encourage piracy with this idiocy - if people can't find what they want when trying to pay, they're quite likely to look where they don't have to.


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    Giggler
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭Giggler


    ioxy,
    how do you actually do it and will i have to deregister it from thr .com site??


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    angel01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭angel01


    Giggler wrote: »
    How do you manage to buy the books from the uk site. My Kindle is registered to the .com site?

    I entered a new address into the system, they did contact me after I paid for the first two and asked for ID to prove I was a UK resident or something, then I tried a proxy and bought my book and got no email from Amazon..

    The system that they are trying to implement won't work and I am happy to use Amazon.co.uk and will continue to find ways around it..:)


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    Antar Bolaeisk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,091 ✭✭✭Antar Bolaeisk


    I haven't had any problem switching between addresses but then the northern address I use has been used extensively in the past for electronics and such.

    To those using proxies, that's not really a great idea regardless of it being encrypted or not, I know I wouldn't be entrusting my password to a proxy.


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    deedee_belle
    Registered Users Posts: 2 ✭deedee_belle


    I live in the UK and i wanna buy a kindle for my dad who lives in Rep of Ireland. Which is the best store to buy it from, Amazon.com/co.uk?
    Considering he is gonna be buying the books himself once he gets it.....

    :confused:


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    Giggler
    Registered Users Posts: 24 ✭Giggler


    Just a quick reply, Love my Kindle!!! I have had it a few days now, and cant figure out wht i didnt do this ages ago. The page turning flashing screen is funny at first, but after a few pages i didnt even notice.

    I am able to order anything i have looked at from the .com site so no problems so far. The download is really fast.

    I got a lovely "book" looking case for it, and a light, so good for night time. I might get sonething else for travelling, but all good so far.


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    #14
    angel01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,030 ✭✭✭angel01


    deedee_belle wrote: »
    I live in the UK and i wanna buy a kindle for my dad who lives in Rep of Ireland. Which is the best store to buy it from, Amazon.com/co.uk?
    Considering he is gonna be buying the books himself once he gets it.....

    :confused:

    I find amazon.co.uk cheaper myself but there isn't a huge amount in the difference...


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