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Originally Posted by Darkitow
Well, I was thinking about setting up a different Amazon account with US address, but how would it work?
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Well, for what it's worth, I have two out-of-country based accounts in addition to my "official" one, and I've managed to acquire literally hundreds of those time-limited promo freebie books which weren't available in my actual location without problems (knock wood) over the past 5-11 months.
Admittedly, I haven't actually bought anything using my extra accounts yet (we have a very good local library system and I'm perfectly fine with reading and buying paper books), but someone in a recent thread mentioned trying to get the free Kaplan promo e-books which were geo-restricted to the US and being stopped and warned after only picking up 7 out of the 130.
I created my new accounts while using the proxy, just because I'm paranoid that maybe Amazon checks when people put in an address that doesn't fit with their IP location.
I use the K4Mac/PC apps to download (also while under proxy), and the DRM-removal tools to strip and load up onto my actual hardware Kindle, since books encoded for different devices are non-transferrable under the Amazon DRM scheme.
Except for Topaz books, for which I'll temporarily reregister and download a copy via the browser from the Manage Your Kindle page at Amazon (still while under proxy). I try to do this in a batch all at once every so often, so that there aren't too many de/re-registrations in a short period of time, in case they notice these things.
Hope this helps.