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www.esupport.sony.com website provides chat support to Sony Reader and Sony Bookstore customers. I was told there that the Bookstore will only accept credit cards registered in the USA. This sounds unlikely to me because Visa, Mastercard etc are internationally accepted cards that will either pay an account or refuse payment on the spot, regardless of the country in which it was registered. With a Mastercard from say, Australia, you can buy anything in say, Brazil, if there is enough money available in the account. Does someone know whether the limitation imposed by Sony -- according to the esupport.sony.com site -- is true? I'd like to test it by entering my non-American credit card details into my Sony Bookstore account. But there is a risk that going against Sony rules (if this rule really applies) might cause a signal sent to my bank, freezing my credit card account temporarily. Does someone perhaps buy from the Sony Bookstore without using a credit card registered in the USA?