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Amazon.co.uk kindle books not available in ireland
Saturday, 07 August 2010 11:40 | 
Written by Lucid | 
With my recent purchase of the iPad one of the first apps I downloaded was the kindle app for amazon. At the time there was only the US version of the kindle store on-line but being in Europe there were restrictions on some of the books I could buy. Now that the UK version of the site was up I was greatly looking forward to downloading a greater variation of books to read on the go and using my purchasing history to receive recommendations.
So I receive an email from amazon.co.uk letting me know the kindle is now available. I fire up the ipad and go to amazons kindle page and at the top of the page was a warning that kindle books are not available in my country. I was shocked. I can buy the kindle device from the UK store and have it shipped to me here in Ireland but I can't buy any of the book that I want. Many of the book I am looking for are simply not available from the US store.
I can only assume that the publishers are the ones causing these problems as they don't seem to have gotten there head around digital distribution. This leaves many customers in Ireland, and in fat other European countries with very little options and I fear that downloading books illegally and converting them into a format your device can read will become more common Which is a shame. Hopefully these restrictions will be lifted soon and we can start enjoying the kindle store as it should be.
UPDATE #1 email from amazon
Dear Mr McCabe,
Thank you for contacting Amazon.co.uk.
Last Updated (Tuesday, 31 August 2010 11:48)
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Last Updated (Thursday, 08 July 2010 16:49) |
