Buying Amazon.com books on a UK Kindle?

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

I only have one Amazon account, it which was set up on Amazon.co.uk, I have two addresses linked to that account, one UK and one US, and I log in with a UK email address

When I log into either Amazon sites its using my UK Amazon email address. I have no idea how its all working 'officially', all I know is its working for me.

When I want to buy from the US store I always change my address on the UK 'Manage Your Kindle page', then I select the link which takes me to the US store. Coming back to the UK I add my UK address on the US 'Manage Your Kindle' page, then I select the link which takes me to the US store.

What this makes me a resident off I have no idea

I live in the Netherlands and I used to change my adress back and fort also. It worked for buying books, free books and Shuffle Row. But since last week fun is over: as soon as I've changed my adress to US/UK and order something; I get the message my order is not available for my region/country. It's not as I want to cheat Amazon; I just want to buy some books with real money (Visa-money that is). Very disappointing.

[Josieb1]

But since last week fun is over: as soon as I've changed my adress to US/UK and order something; I get the message my order is not available for my region/country. It's not as I want to cheat Amazon; I just want to buy some books with real money (Visa-money that is). Very disappointing

Everytime I do it (and its only been three times so far) I get nervous it won't work and end up spending a fortune on books as I never know if its going to work again

[desertblues]

Originally Posted by Josieb1

Everytime I do it (and its only been three times so far) I get nervous it won't work and end up spending a fortune on books as I never know if its going to work again

Well; that's the only positive thing about it; I don't have to be nervous any more.

[abookreader]

Josie, this is the explanation.
A UK address gives a Kindle a choice that isn't available to any other country. A UK user can shop either via Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com ...

But when you go onto either website (Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) and put in a US Address as your Kindle address you no longer have a choice. US Addresses have to shop via Amazon.com for Kindle books.

So when you go to your Amazon.co.uk website and change that address to a US location, it will automatically send you over to the Amazon.com website - because US Kindle users aren't allowed to buy Kindle books via Amazon.co.uk.

Hmm, the rest of us will just have to lie , I guess.

what's the zip code for Pres. Obama c/o. the whitehouse ;-)

I saw somebody post the other day that Amazon no longer allows 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as a Kindle Address. I haven't actually tried it though. I guess maybe Jeff Bezos decided the Obama family probably didn't need more than the couple of thousand of Kindles they probably already had registered to their home.

[Josieb1]

Hi abookreader, thanks very much for the explanation. Hopefully that clears it up for other people as well.

[SamJBuss]

Hi! I'm getting my Kindle Paperwhite tomorrow for Xmas and I am wondering how to buy books from the .com site. I live in the uk and have purchased my kindle from Curry's, will I be able to get the books I want from the .com site?

[kennie]

I just did it this week but it's kind of expensive. I live in US and have wanted several UK books for quite a while. So, I opened a new UK account with a UK address (yes, I used a valid address of someone I didn't even know-- you may find that unpleasant, but since i was only planning to buy some kindle books I decided to do it anyways). Then, I had to buy an IP address changer. I found one that had a three month membership for 17.95 and bought it and installed it on Firefox since I use the U.S. Amazon account on Chrome usually. Then, the last step. . . from my US account, I signed into the UK Amazon and bought UK Amazon gift card for the amount I needed for my books and chose the printable option so I'd get the number as soon as possible. Then, with the number of my gift card, I signed into Amazon UK and went to my account and added the gift card to my account (Amazon UK will NOT let you buy ebooks with a US credit card). After I had the gift card into my account, I bought all my books.

Oh-- big deal here. I needed to DEREGISTER my Kindle for PC (I didn't want to do this with my real kindle) on my US account and uninstalled it. Then I reinstalled it with my Amazon UK account. If you don't have kindle for pc, install it from the new UK Amazon account-- you need a kindle option to have amazon download to.

So, then, after I downloaded my five books, I found them in "MY KINDLE CONTENT" and changed them from Amazon format to epub with calibre. THen from epub to mobi. And then I installed them to my kindle with the usb cord. Yes, the drm issue will be an issue so you still have to figure out a way around that. I am new here and don't know the forum rules about htis, so I'll remain silent on this subject-- if you have had to do this before, you'll have to do it now, too.

Now they are in my kindle drm free. Honestly, I'm not sure I had to do the format change from amazon format to epub to mobi, but i did anyways. It may have worked fine with the drm removed and just put into my kindle in the original format.