MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Yes, but does this mean we no longer need to use gift certificates?

Mike L · 10-07-2009, 07:52 AM

So, it looks like many of the geographic restrictions on Kindle books have been removed. All the titles I've checked on the Kindle front page now state that the price includes "international wireless delivery" (although not all books are available in all countries). Amazon UK says that over 280,000 books from the US Kindle store are now available in the UK.

This should mean we can abandon the use of gift certificates, vritual credit cards and similar kludges, and pay with a credit card registered to a non-US address.

Have I understood it right? My problem is that I can't test this because I have a fairly large balance on my gift cert. account, and there's no way to force it to charge the credit card.

Also, I assume that you don't actually need the new international version of the Kindle to take advantage of this (unless of course you want to use the wireless access).

10-07-2009, 07:52 AM	#1
Mike L Wizard Posts: 1,479 Karma: 3846231 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Device: Kindle 3, Samsung Galaxy	Yes, but does this mean we no longer need to use gift certificates? So, it looks like many of the geographic restrictions on Kindle books have been removed. All the titles I've checked on the Kindle front page now state that the price includes "international wireless delivery" (although not all books are available in all countries). Amazon UK says that over 280,000 books from the US Kindle store are now available in the UK. This should mean we can abandon the use of gift certificates, vritual credit cards and similar kludges, and pay with a credit card registered to a non-US address. Have I understood it right? My problem is that I can't test this because I have a fairly large balance on my gift cert. account, and there's no way to force it to charge the credit card. Also, I assume that you don't actually need the new international version of the Kindle to take advantage of this (unless of course you want to use the wireless access).