Comments on: Amazon geographical restrictions for Kindle Books update

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:22:38 +0000

For users overseas, if you download kindle for PC, and then provide a US address, you can easily get around the restrictions above, and then transfer the books via USB to your kindle. WOrks great for free books too!

By: admin

admin — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:40:17 +0000

John,
This news post is more than 6 month old.

Kindle is already international and countries other than US get very good eBook selection too.

By: John Corey

John Corey — Fri, 14 May 2010 03:45:12 +0000

HMMMM! Interesting to read the comments above. I am in Australia and was just about to purchase a Kindle, having researched it for some time. I am at a loss as to the inexplicible reason US companies such as Amazon and iTunes do not allow reputable Credit Cards such as Visa & Mastercard, which may be used universally, NOT to be used for purchase on the internet, simply because the customer lives outside the US. Isn’t the whole point of the internet to allow people to shop globally????
Another reason to believe the US is too ethnocentric for its own good.
Guess we’ll have to keep on cutting down the trees for paper a little longer until someone sees the light.

By: Richard Chuang

Richard Chuang — Fri, 14 May 2010 01:17:41 +0000

Surely,

My aunt brought me a Kindle DX as a gift for me in Shanghai, I am blocked…. hardly buy ebooks from the amazon, it turns to be useless to me.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:36:53 +0000

It's funny that you would ask... :) I've just finished putting together a post about international Kindle DX based on a rumor that I've dug up some of my own speculations.

By: TAlex

TAlex — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:01:03 +0000

Any news concerning the launch of the Kindle DX also in international flavour? Any clue why Amazon decided to launch only one of it’s readers abroad?
I am thrilled to see Europe getting the Kindle, but if i were to buy one, i’d surely like the DX for the larger screen.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:36:33 +0000

It's all made clear with the international release of Kindle. Not all books are available to all countries.

By: Yang-May Ooi

Yang-May Ooi — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:23:47 +0000

I have my suspicions that non-US consumers will be able to buy the international Kindle but the ebook list will be severely restricted. Just look at audible.com the audiobook site which requires a US credit card and address and which has vastly more titles compared to audible.co.uk which has a much more limited selection for UK customers. Also if you try to buy US ebooks (as a non-US customer) on other ebook sites at the moment, you will also be blocked. I hope I am wrong as I would lke to switch to ebooks and the Kindle seems like a good option – but I’m not going to buy the hardware till I am confident that a sufficiently wide range of ebooks will actually be available on it.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:41:25 +0000

With the announced international introduction of the Kindle 2, I expect this to really be a technical glitch. After all, if after October, the Kindle 2 is delivered to 100 countries, current Kindle users in those countries surely should be able to buy eBooks from Amazon.