[mva]

For the ones that are seeing a different price. There is a small trick workaround for that. You can generate a real US address here: http://www.realusaaddress.com/ and make that your primary address. As you as shipping digital stuff it doesn't matter that it's not your real address. Prices of the Kindle store should drop immediately.

Watch out when making non digital purchases though that you select the correct address ;-)

[KTamasEnty]

Yes you can use a fake US address and set your Kindle country to the US, but Amazon monitors the IPs (and credit cards) you are buying from and after a few purchaes to your fake US address, they'll start sending you letters asking for proof you live there and eventually lock you out (force you to change back to your real country) if you can't provide them.

[GFischer]

Amazon killed a coworker's Kindle Fire account, because he was forced to add a test credit card - you can't use Kindle Fire without an U.S. cc, which sucks.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/secret-kindle-fire-north-americ...

tons of hoops to jump to use a Kindle Fire outside the U.S.

[kruk]

You should be able to use a proxy then. Or buy as a gift, for some reason they don't block those.

[KTamasEnty]

using a proxy/vpn and buying yourself gift cards from another account should give you reasonable protection, yes. As long as you have enough gift card balance, Amazon won't ask you to add a Credit Card. But it's cumbersome, etc.

[kruk]

Amazon recently started blocking my Kindle purchases basing on the fact my IP locates me in Japan while my primary address is set to the USA. When I switched to the gift option (using the same account) it worked without any problem even though I was still using the same Polish credit card.

[KTamasEnty]

heh, good to know, thanks.

[EliRivers]

And..... bang! It's easier to pirate it, so I will. When it's difficult to give someone my money, I just won't bother.

I am well aware that the world of international publishing is a convoluted mess (Charles Stross covers it well over on antipope); I'm not sympathetic enough to that mess to be willing to get charged such disparate amounts.

[Tyrannosaurs]

If the Kindle is registered to a UK device it blocks it at that point.

I used a proxy so I looked like I was in the US, registered a new account and it was all fine but it wouldn't let me gift it to a UK Kindle.

[jagira]

I don't get the difference in pricing.

Do Kindle books involve local publishers like printed books? (e.g A book published by Penguin in USA and TMG in India has different prices)

[kruk]

Yep. You can read an answer to a similar question here: http://brentweeks.ning.com/forum/topics/not-allowed-to-buy-y...