Comments on: Buying US Kindle books, without hiding IP address

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:09:12 +0000

Thanks for the information, Angela !!

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:43:50 +0000

As far as German Kindle books (from Amazon.de) are concerned, you will be blocked after downloading approx. 5 books (Amazon checks your IP-address) and according to customer support this block only can be released once (for another 5 books). Don’t know if this is also valid for other Amazon stores, though.

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:09:32 +0000

Hi, I live in Greece and have a kindle 3 (bought while visiting the states). It actually took me 7 months to realize that I couldn’t buy games and was paying more for books. After wasting a couple of hours trying to hide my IP address (didn’t work because of cookies), I logged onto to my kindle account through my computer and changed my country location from Greece to US. All games are now available and books are cheaper. (I downloaded 2 cheap games to check – they were instantly delivered to my kindle here in Greece through whispernet) I didn’t change my Greek credit card or billing address. I don’t know if it helped that I had several US addresses on file to choose from, from sending gifts – I used my parents’ address in MN. So far so good!

By: kindle

kindle — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:43:54 +0000

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By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 05 May 2011 01:02:50 +0000

Hi All, it has 3G coverage in Singapore

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:21:38 +0000

Glad that you bought the book you want and the same method still works … enjoy !!

Cheers

By: Ling

Ling — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:46:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing, managed to download (using your suggestions) a kindle ebook which was unavailable in Asia Pacific. I stay in Singapore. Yeah!!
‘Do the work’ by Steven Pressfield.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:34:05 +0000

Hi Delphin,

As far as I know, there is no 3G support of Kindle 3 in Singapore yet, so you may go for WiFi version for now (unless you know there is future support).

With the Kindle 3 International version, you can certainly buy eBooks from Amazon – even you don’t have an US account with Amex card. The only pitfall is you cannot buy some ebooks which are available for US market only (that’s why one need an US Amazon account).

Hope it helps !!

By: Delphin

Delphin — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:57:30 +0000

Hi Michael,

The information here is very useful.
I have been considering to buy a Kindle 3 with wifi ($139) or wifi +3G ($189)? Which one should I buy as I have a wireless modem at home (Singapore)?
I am staying in Singapore but my sister living in HK and Kindle is available to ship to HK and I can ask my sister to bring it to Singapore for me. However I do not have a Amex card instead I have a Citibank card issued in Singapore. Can I use Citibank card to buy gift cards then download to to desktop & transfer to Kindle? Or I should apply a Amex card now?
I am quite worry if I am not able to buy ebooks from Amazon after I bought my Kindle.

Thanks for you kind advice in advance.

Delphin

By: Nana

Nana — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:18:09 +0000

Hi, Michael! Had bought Kindle books for my iPad with trick of US address with my Indonesian credit card until last week got this message of Amazon detecting my country is not US (am in Indonesia). Waited a week to retry, no success. Tried your trick of not sigining in, didn’t work either.
Aaaaaaarrrrgghhh! Why is it so difficult to buy, not pirating, books! Help!