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How to Purchase Kindle ebooks in Singapore or Malaysia?

At the beginning of this year, I covered how to get a Kindle to ship to Singapore, similar methods also can be applied to Kindle restricted countries. After that, the second most asked question I get was ‘How do I purchase Kindle books outside of USA?’.

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Of course, if your countries not within the restricted region, you can directly purchase the ebook with your credit card. But I found out that United States Amazon will have the most complete book titles compare to other country Kindle stores. So, this might be a good reason for you to buy books on United States Kindle store.

Here are the steps from my experience:

You need to ensure you have set your country to United States
1. Go to Amazon.com -> Your Account -> Manage your Kindle -> Your Country
2. Select United States. I’m not sure whether it need a valid USA address for validation, but if you previously purchase your Kindle with a USA mail forwarder like me, then this won’t give you any issue.
Actual Ebooks Purchase
1. The method I used is buying some Amazon Gift Cards and email to yourself. So by doing that, you are able to top up your Amazon Account with some money credits. It sounds like some sort of money laundry, hehe.
2. This method bypasses Amazon from checking whether you have a USA credit card.

That’s all. If you have any other methods that worth sharing with our readers, leave a comment below!

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aside 8 Oct

A Few More Things We Know About Kindle Fire

Amazon hasn’t revealed much hardware information about the new Kindle Fire. However, on Amazon’s developers site recently, some details have leaked out.

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Here are some of the conclusion we got:

512MB memory, built in SD card but non removable?!
Doesn’t support Google Mobile Services (GMS)
Support multi-touch capabilities
WIFI only supports 802.11b/g, but not n
Have accelerometer and light sensor
App doesn’t able to manipulate the wallpaper and theme
OS is Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread
App doesn’t have permission to use camera modules, bluetooth, mic, GPS, gyroscope or micro-SD.

You already can preorder Kindle Fire Today! I really hope to get an Amazon Kindle Fire in Singapore.

aside 17 Jan

My Kindle 3 in Singapore and Why I’m not getting iPad

On new year eve, I out of sudden ordered a Kindle 3 from Amazon. 19 days later, I finally received it! Amazon doesn’t ship electronic stuff directly to Singapore. It is weird that Kindle is available for over 100 countries but Singapore and Malaysia isn’t on the list. Therefore alternatively, I know I need a mail forwarder to get this done.

I choose to go with Borderlinx, I have several mail forwarders in my list because I planned to get a Herman Miller chair, but in the end, I changed my mind. Anyway, here some mail forwarders you might want to check out myus.com, comgateway and viaddress. I wouldn’t recommend VPOST after hearing some of its horror stories posted by the users.

One thing about Kindle is you can’t buy your books from Amazon, because it has some regional restriction. Anyway, I already have so many books in my hard drives.