Is there any way to buy an international kindle book?

[HarryT]

There's no contradiction on those two statements . US and UK law both consider that a customer's PC is the point of sale, and publishers can't ignore their contracts which restrict them to selling books only to people in countries that their contract permits them to.

I'm sure this matter will sort itself out, but it's going to take a few years to do so. New authors would be well-advised to sign non-exclusive world-wide distribution deals for their eBooks.

[aproudlove]

I'm a brit that has been living in Europe for the last 14 years, I bought my Kindle from Amazon.com (had it shipped to a US address and then forwarded to me so I could get it in time for Christmas).
When I first went to the Amazon store (I had my local address in Europe set), it took me to the international store and some of the books that I wanted were US or UK only.

I have legit addresses in the US and the UK, that I have had goods shipped to. So I tried changing my address in the account settings to the US address and that worked I was able to buy books.

When it first worked, I bought about 6 books, in one go and received an email from Amazon stating that I wasnt in the US. I ignored the email, waited a week and tried again and it worked. So now when I purchase books, I try to follow two rules of thumb, I don't buy more than 6 in one go and I don't buy them all in one go, I spread the purchases out during the day.

So far this has worked and I hope that everyone is happy, I'm paying for the books and I hope the authors are getting their money. I have just the Wifi version so everything is downloaded over wifi obviously and so I don't generate any traffic or fees on the 3G network.