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Originally Posted by oecherprinte
Hi,
I am considering to buy the new Kindle3 3G. I have the option of
either getting it in the US by having it sent to friends, open up a US Kindle Account and pick it up the next time I visit them. Or I could order it in Germany. When I get it in the US I could save arount 70 Euros including paying the German tax when I import the device.
However, I have a few questions that you could help me with:
- Can I open up a US Kindle Account? I ordered several books using amazon to a US address and some to Germany and I even have a social security number? When I order the Kindle, is the device already locked to some amazon account?
- Will the free 3G access also work in Germay even if I have a US account? Are there limitations? Will the wikipedia and the web browser also work in Germay? Will there be any additional 3G costs when I use the US account?
- Will there be limitation regarding the German books I can buy when I use the US account?
- I heard that some US blockbuster books cannot be purchased with a German account. Is that true? Are the books more expensive when I use a Germany account? In Germany we have a "Buchpreisbindung" which does not allow stores to sell books at a lower price.
Thanks and best regards,
Jens
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You can open various accounts.
I mainly purchase in the US one, but occasionally in the UK one as well.
All of that with my German credit card.
3G for free works, whatever account you use for purchase.
In the past you had to pay fees if you had the US Kindle and have been purchasing in Europe. That's history though.
There are only few German books in the Amazon bookstore (yet?).
There are regional restrictions. Some books will be available only in certain countries. But as you can switch between accounts/countries back and forth, that's no problem.
BTW: Amazon of course is aware of that. Same for iTunes for example. They easily can track your IP. Of course you could use VPN, but that's not even necessary. On one hand, those merchants are happy about such "backdoors", so they informally can sell their content globally. On the other hand, there's no real solution for them at hands. If you sell a Kindle "global wireless", you have to expect that for example US customers will purchase books when traveling overseas as well. If you have to provide a solution for such frequent travelers, there's always a backdoor for others as well.
Prices sometimes/often differ in the various accounts. You can check search engines like inkmesh to compare availability/prices/formats...
It doesn't matter where you buy it. It's the same globally anyway.
Your reader will be registered to the account from which you buy it. Bu of course you always can register to another account.