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Originally Posted by Josieb1
Amazon won't care about you using a UK payment card, debit or credit, all it needs to transfer your Kindle account to the US is a US address. Once you've added a US addresses to your UK Amazon account and then linked your Kindle account to that US address (all done on the UK site) it automatically asks you if you want to switch your Kindle account to the US, nothing else on your UK or US account changes, just at that point you can only buy Kindle books in the US store.
Then you reverse the process starting in the US store to come back to the UK. You can stay registered to the US for a long as you want. I used to be registered permanently, now I only do it occasionally.
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Thanks, Josie - my testing revealed that this was completely correct, so this was very much appreciated! The key, as you say, is to add a US address through the "Manage Your Kindle" section of your UK account (I used a random one for Virginia), and then linked my UK payment card to it. As you further noted, the Amazon site will then automatically update to say that your Kindle account is in the US.
People wanting to do this themselves from the UK site should log in, go to the "Manage Your Kindle" section of their account, then click on "Country Settings". It will show "United Kingdom" under "Current Country", and to the right is a link marked "Change". Click that and a window to enter a new address will appear (if you've already entered a US address into your address book, you can just choose it from the drop-down at the top of the window). When you're done, click "Update",
et voila, that's it!
Anyway, having done this, I was then able to see, buy and download the book (both to my Kindle and the Kindle app on my Mac), before going back and reversing the process above to get back to my UK address.
I did test the proxy thing to an extent though, and it would seem that my suspicions were correct regarding what titles are displayed by Amazon.com - as I said in an earlier post, the Kindle edition of "The Lion's Gate" wouldn't appear in search results when I looked for it from my computer in the UK. However, using a simple browser-based US proxy, it showed up in the search results straight away. This may be something people should bear in mind when searching for titles on Amazon.com in future!
Thanks all for your advice - if even one person finds this useful (besides me!), then I'll be a happy man indeed
