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  1. It's publishers who feel threatened who have forbidden Amazon to sell ebooks abroad. (Nothing to do with 'French restrictions'. English books are available with no postage from amazon.fr). I have no reply to 2 letters sent to their trade Association. Penguin MacMillan Harper Collins Hachette Simon Schuster Canongate Wiley Egmont  are a few of the bigger publishers who are exercising this censorship. (Article in Sunday Times - which I can get online but not on Kindle!) I plan to write to them all, and to William Boyd, who, in the same article, praised the Kindle. As he lives just up the road from me near Monbazaillac, I wonder if he's found it impossible to get his latest novel for his Kindle? As I have.
  2. Oh Jay I could CRy! How did you a) access the UK store? b)not get locked out as soon as you put in your card details? Does everyone lie about their billing address/delivery address? In that no hard objects are ever sent? But your card company wouldn't clear the wrong address... Why are Cathy, John & I having problems? Wait a mo. Simon has the 149£ model with both 3g & wifi. Is it just those with the cheaper one who can be traced by Amazon? Btw, amazon claim it's not them - they had to sign a Licensing Agreement on ebooks with the British Publishers. I am currently trying to get the Publishers' Association to reply to me and will start writing to papers as I'm convinced this restriction is illegal under EU law. Check out other forums, Irish, Canadians, language students across the world are all furious about this. Anyone would think that publishers could do without the money!
  3. I am still mystified (& jumping up & down with irritated frustration) - so some of you are having no trouble buying kindle material from amazon.co.uk? They (Amazon) have finally, after weeks of emails,  explained fully to me why it is impossible for anyone (?) living outside the UK to purchase e-books from the .co.uk store; it's not their policy but the publishers'. Amazon signed a Licensing Agreement with the publishers of e-books forbidding their sale outside the UK. The same publishers have agreements with the American .com site where far fewer British ebooks are available and for double the price. So surely Cathy & I aren't the only people who are experiencing this problem? I'm pretty sure these agreements contravene the EU Treaties on the free movement of goods & services and now all my visitors have gone I'll be back on my hobby-horse writing letters to the Press & Publisher's Association about it, after all we all get books, dvds etc easily from Amazon.co.uk with no export restrictions. Illegal censorship, I reckon. I have registered my Kindle at my son's UK address, and can access the UK store using expat shield and a uk hotmail e-dress, so I can choose stuff. But he is having to purchase it for me using his registered card, even though my card is a NAtwest bank one, as soon as I tried to register it I was 'locked out' because of the French address. This includes the free stuff as one-click asks for an invoice address, too. I suppose I will just have to lie; is that how the rest of you have got round it? Coop, did you say you'd gone to .com store and somehow reset your settings? Where did you tell 'it' you'd moved to?
  4. Hi guys, I have joined this Forum because of this discussion. Like many of you, having been delighted to get a K as a present I have been really disappointed to be unable to access the Kindle UK store. I too get the message saying the store is available to UK customers only. Using Expat Shield I can 'see' the store, but as soon as I try to register my card, of a UK bank account but registered to my French address, amazon lock me out again. The amazon.com store is useless. Firstly, too expensive - try comparing prices on the two. Then the books - few British authors, or the ones I want to read, are available from the American store. Nor are most British publications. Many forums are fizzing with anger over this; Irish, Canadians, Anglophones all over the world and many of the 650 000 expats in Europe furious that the Publisher's Licensing Agreement with Amazon is exercising this censorship. Anyone would think that Publishers didn't need our money! I cannot understand how Simon has had no problem. I do know of people who have got round it by registering in the UK & somehow being able to have a UK address for your invoice address. You do also have to create a new amazon account with a UK email address (I just made a hotmail one, worked for a while!) As for 'investigating' people's accounts... I'm apoplectic! European Treaties insist upon the 'Free circulation of goods and services' within the EU and I reckon Amazon & the Publishers are the ones contravening the law here. I send emails to amazon & the publisher's association about this and plan to take it further. I want my Kindle!
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