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Originally Posted by mgmueller
Lots of us use several countries for buying their Amazon eBooks.
I've got my German Amazon account for physical shipments. Within this account, I've got a US and a UK shipment address. I only have to change the country in my Kindle account. Then I can buy from the US or UK, I even don't have to change my billing address. I use the very same billing address and (German) credit card, from whatever Amazon country I'm buying.
There have been rumors about Amazon restricting this. And in fact, a few years ago, I've received emails from Amazon maybe 3 times. Something like "did you move recently". But I've never faced any troubles, nor have I seen anything like that in this forum.
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That is good to know and good info.
For physical deliveries it is of course very common to use just about any Amazon (shipping restrictions may apply) and even forwarding service addresses to ship the items if restrictions apply. I don't see any issues with this, nor do I think Amazon has any issues with this.
Personally I'd be a little hesitant to use not-my-country Amazon for digital downloads though. I use Amazon.com "international" account with the country set to my real country of residence. The licensing of books is often done region by region (even from Amazon.com sometimes they refuse to sell some book to international markets because of this) and if they notice someone bypassing those restrictions with whatever means, they might feel the pressure of the publishers to interfere - and with Kindle they have much more power to interfere than with.
That said, that is just my personal view. Some people use Calibre and legality of that depends on the region etc.