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Originally Posted by fearindex
tono1020: It is helpful to get further confirmation that buying the device from Amazon.de doesn't in any way tie it to DE accounts. Thank you for that.
As for the local Kindle stores, I too believe aceflor is right. While you can use any Amazon account to login to local Amazon stores and buy from them (within possible shipping restrictions) anywhere, Kindle content is handled differently. Amazon.com is the Kindle provider for most of their circa 150 countries they support - there may be some "shipping" restrictions even in this case, but the account is basically a U.S. account, to which additional country info is added that may limit some regional content, but is basically a U.S. account.
UK and Germany (and some others) have local Kindle stores for local markets in addition to this on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de respectively. There you are actually shopping with, e.g. Amazon.de for the Kindle content, but you can do this with only and Amazon.de account, a Kindle registered to Amazon.de - and I believe you are allowed (whatever that means) to use Amazon.de account only for Kindle content from those countries supported by Amazon.de for Kindle content (German speaking markets?). There was a case where a UK Kindle owner got into trouble with Amazon after moving to Norway, or something like that, and continuing to use the UK store (instead of the U.S. international store).
So, while Amazon's local stores are quite universal, their local Kindle content stores are local - with the exception of the U.S. store that serves (almost) globally.
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Thanks for the detailed explanation.