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Old 06-29-2010, 05:40 AM   #10
whiz16
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Originally Posted by Mel_Putra View Post
I am a Malaysian who will be buying PRS-300 when I go over to US in Aug. And I have set up OpenVPN in my pc to hide my IP address. However, I know that the other hurdle in buying ebooks is my non-US credit card. How do I overcome this issue? If I register using a US address (for my M'sian credit card) will that be enough or will they still check on that and discover that my card is not US based?

Help! I don't want to buy the reader and find it useless outside US! Malaysia currently doesn't have a bookshop retailing ebooks..


Mel
hi mel , i have a sony PRS - 600 and sucessfully bought e-books from these 2 websites with my local credit card (non-US).

http://www.webscription.net/ <- mostly scifi / fantasy types
http://www.fictionwise.com/

plus u can check if your local library allows you to check out ebooks ... (they have the service in singapore library http://singapore.lib.overdrive.com/E...en/Default.htm )
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