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"Unfortunate truth: you can only purchase books from the Amazon.com Kindle store if you own a Kindle device"
Logically, this is analysed as is a scope ambiguity. And it's ambiguous in both US and UK English.
The ambiguity arises because of the unclear scope of the word "only."
Either it is analysed as
(Only if you own a kindle) can you purchase books from the Amazon store.
or as
If you own a kindle then (you can only purchase books from the Amazon store).
These ambiguities are very easy to make and I end up correcting a lot of them in students' essays.
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