Kindle Content Outside the US

Want to get hold of content for your Amazon Kindle Reader but not living in the US? You could make a trip or ask a friend of relative to do the business, but there is a much simpler way and it doesn’t involve spoofing your shipping address or somehow getting hold of a US credit card. All you have to do is buy an Amazon gift card and use the balance to buy your Kindle content online before your credit card is debited. nerdgirl has the full skinny on how to do this, but basically:

• Sign into Amazon.com with your international account
• Register your Kindle online (you have got one, I assume)
• Set up 1-Click payment for your Kindle using your credit card number but accidentally enter a US billing address. This is not fraudulent because the card is not going to be authorized or debited at any point
• Buy a Gift Card and send the code to your own email address
• Apply the Gift Card to your Kindle account
• Buy what you like for your Kindle
• Download your purchased books and sync to your Kindle via USB, go to your digital downloads on Amazon
• Top up your Gift Card before it expires and make sure you don’t use the credit card on the account.

Remember, that outside the US you won’t have any Kindle wireless connectivity to get day-to-day content updates from news sources (for now at least, Amazon is gearing up to launch Kindle internationally). But, for the time being at least you now have some digital books to read on your beach holiday, just don’t get sand in your Kindle, not a problem for readers of traditional pulp fiction, of course.