I bought my Kindle via
Taobao, which is the Chinese equivalent of eBay. In fact, I don't want to return it or have it refunded, because since I got it I love using it to read ebooks! (Of course I take full advantage of online resources such as Project Gutenberg.)
Just before the Kindle DX was due for release I did read that Amazon were willing to ship to China, and the ease with which a large retailer in Beijing was able to supply me seemed to confirm this.
I could accept (albeit unwillingly) that they are totally unprepared to provide wireless coverage here (even for something as unrelated to ebook purchase as using the built-in experimental web browser), but as I've said what I find really galling is that I cannot buy ebooks from them and download to my PC, even though Amazon has accepted my orders for (real) books in the past, they now tell me that I cannot order from the Kindle store, that they will not accept payment with a Chinese credit card! Where is the logic or fairness in this?
Thanks for the suggestion re. gift cards desertgrandma, I'll maybe check that out in order to try and get that book. I just have a particular desire to read that book, I think for the most part I'll simply now learn to live without Amazon's help or services.
If anyone can point me to another source for the book I mentioned I'd appreciate it.
Tibet isn't a subject that greatly interests me rmm200.