Comments on: Amazon Kindle 2/DX for Singaporeans!

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:33:37 +0000

Typo error on my previous posting

@Howard

Yap i did not use VPN to buy my books from amazon. I bought a book last Fri and it was all smooth. My Kindle can connect to multiple Iphone Kindle sets and Kindle for blackberry too. All seems fine.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:44:51 +0000

@Howard Yap i did not use VPN to buy my books from amazon. I bought a book last Fri and it was all smooth. My Kindle can connect to multiple Iphone Kindle sets and iphone for blackberry too. All seems fine.

By: Melvin Neo

Melvin Neo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:14:41 +0000

@Howard,

That’s strange. Just to make sure that my method still works, I went to purchase a Kindle book, “The E-Myth Revisited” without any problem. For that matter, I didn’t even use VPN whatsoever. One of my friends who is also a regular commenter on my post, Charles, also purchased the same way just last Friday (5th Mar 10).

Please see the proof of my today’s purchase at the link below. Pay special attention to the green arrow (showing country as “United States”) and red arrow showing the date of purchase as Mar 10th (not Mar 11th because of time difference):

Proof of Purchase

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:02:43 +0000

@Shah : Option only appears after you buy the Kindle 2 from Amazon.

By: Howard

Howard — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:22:15 +0000

Hi! I am helping a friend set up her Kindle in Singapore (Global Wireless Edition – just purchased 2 weeks ago).

The eBook section of Amazon tells me: “Kindle titles are not available in Singapore.”

I did this to set up the account:
- VPN’d into a US connection so IP address showed up as from USA
- Created a US gmail account
- Created an Amazon account linked to the gmail account
- Browsed Kindle bookstore – get the error message

Did something change?? Am I totally unable to use the Kindle in Singapore? Thanks!