Kindle International
When Amazon released a Kindle app for the iPhone I quickly snapped it up and installed it, then I promptly deleted it!Why?
Because I couldn’t purchase Kindle books. Stupid international copyright or whatever the deal was, it was stopping me from buying books from the Amazon Kindle Store.
Yes, I had read about a workaround, which actually wasn’t that difficult, but I didn’t want to bother with it badly enough. And so I thought that was that.
Till today, when Amazon announced Kindle International. I quickly logged on and ordered myself a Kindle. My order stands and to be honest I’m not really sure if I am going to proceed with it. Really I want the DX and I’m also a bit hopeful that early next year Apple will release something totally awesome that will make the Kindle redundant.
But anyway - that got me thinking, Kindle is now available internationally and you have to have an American Amazon account to use it, that means that international restrictions would be removed. So I tried shopping and it worked. So now I have a Kindle book (the Sookie Stackhouse Series) on my iPhone. Excellent.
Currently I think this is what you need:
An American iTunes account (to get the Kindle app) it is not currently available on the Australian iTS (although maybe that will change).
An American Amazon account (to buy kindle books).
That’s it.
I bought the book on the Amazon website (via the desktop not through the iPhone).
Told Amazon to send it to my iPhone
Turned on the iPhone Kindle and in a few moments there it was.
I started reading immediately. Too easy.
Now I have the iPhone Kindle reader.. I think I might hold out for the Kindle DX or the tablet from Apple.
