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Originally Posted by Sao
Actually, there is no Kindle bookstore at the Canadian site. We have to buy Kindle books at Amazon.com, and not Amazon.ca. I have a Canadian address and a Canadian credit card, and that's sufficient to buy a Kindle ebook. The same isn't true of other services - we can't access the document thing that Americans can, no digital music, no cloud, no apps, no streaming, but we can buy Kindle ebooks.
I don't have a Kindle, but I have downloaded freebies and sale books for the PC reading app and it's seamless. I know there are ways to game the system to gain access to all the other services Americans can access, but I'm not really interested in jumping through all those hoops.
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True there are no ebooks at amazon.ca, but you will notice when you are signed into amazon.com and buying an ebook from amazon.com that your country is set to Canada. Select 'Kindle Store', from the 'Shop All Departments' drop down menu. Then look towards the top left of the site. It will say 'Your Country or Region'. If you have a Canadian address it will say Canada.
This is what limits the ebooks you can buy as a Canadian. What I am saying is if you set up a US address (can be any valid US address) and then use that address (go to Manage Your Kindle, select Country Settings and then pick your US address) your Country or Region will be set to United states and then you have access to pretty much all the ebooks at amazon.
Now, there has only been a couple of times that I have had to do this as the Cdn kindle store has a very good selection - and often the pricing is better than in the US store...